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Swarthmore Lecture 2024 to focus on prisons and punishment
12 September 2023
Next year's Swarthmore Lecture, a key date in the Quaker diary, will be delivered by prison expert Ben Jarman.
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Quakers protest human cost of arms trade
7 September 2023
Quakers are protesting outside a huge arms fair in east London which is going ahead despite appalled opposition from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
UPDATE: Several Quakers were arrested on Thursday, 7 September, during Meeting for Worship at No Faith in War Day.
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‘In perpetual purgatory’: Quakers fear for lives of offenders with indeterminate sentences
6 September 2023
The government should re-sentence all remaining IPP prisoners, Quakers say, as new figures show hundreds recalled to prison despite not being charged with a further offence.
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Quakers petition prime minister on right to boycott
31 August 2023
Quakers in Britain joined others to hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street urging prime minister Rishi Sunak to scrap the anti-boycott bill.
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Quakers called to hold climate vigils across the UK during Quaker Week
29 August 2023
A new climate support group is encouraging Quakers to bear witness to their concern for the climate by holding vigils this September.
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Quakers urge government to roll-out UN-backed schemes to support asylum seekers
24 August 2023
The UK government should broaden access to community-based schemes endorsed by the UN instead of treating asylum seekers with hostility, Quakers said.