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US Quaker Emily Provance to deliver 2025 Swarthmore Lecture
18 September 2024
New York Quaker Emily Provance will give next year's Swarthmore Lecture, focusing on the meaning of Quaker community and the challenges of cooperation.
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Quakers urge full ban on UK arms exports to Israel
3 September 2024
The government's suspension of some arms exports is a welcome recognition of the clear risk that Israel is using UK arms to violate international humanitarian law, but does not go nearly far enough, Quakers in Britain said.
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“We are still here”: Quakers from around the world gather in South Africa
14 August 2024
Quakers gathered in Vanderbijlpark near Johannesburg, South Africa, last week (5-12 August), nearly four centuries after their foundation.
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Quakers welcome historic ruling on Palestine but warn of imminent danger of wider war
2 August 2024
Quakers have welcomed the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) landmark ruling that the Israeli presence in all occupied Palestinian territory must end.
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Quakers open up decision making
1 August 2024
Quakers in Britain are to simplify their structures to make them more transparent and release time and energy for active work in the world.
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Just Stop Oil sentences too harsh, Quakers and others say
23 July 2024
Quakers have joined more than 1,100 lawyers, academics and celebrities in calling for an urgent meeting with the attorney general to discuss the “injustice" of lengthy sentences for peaceful protest.