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• Trident not only immoral but expensive waste, Quakers say after failed test

  22 February 2024

  Quakers have reiterated their concerns over the immoral Trident missile system after reports emerged of another failed test.

• Quakers cited in Lords debate on right to boycott bill

  21 February 2024

  Quakers in Britain's “powerful" briefings on the anti-boycott bill were recognised in the House of Lords this week during its second reading.

• Letter to the Prime Minister from the Humanitarian and Human Rights Sector on Rafah

  13 February 2024

  Alongside other charities and faith organisations, Quakers in Britain have written to the Prime Minister calling on him to use the UK's diplomatic pressure to urge Israel to change course.

• Quakers urge government to continue funding Inter Faith Network

  13 February 2024

  Horrified at the imminent closure of the crucial Inter Faith Network (IFN), Quakers are urging the government to reconsider its funding withdrawal.

• Quaker peace education gathers momentum

  1 February 2024

  Quaker peace education is gathering momentum with the piloting of a three-day sustainable model for peer mediation training.

• Quakers join over 260 organisations calling on House of Lords to block Rwanda Bill

  30 January 2024

  Along with 260 charities, faiths and civil society bodies, Quakers in Britain called on the House of Lords this week to block the “deeply harmful" Rwanda Bill.

• UK must take urgent action after ICJ genocide ruling, Quakers say

  30 January 2024

  Quakers have welcomed, with a heavy heart, the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that there is a plausible risk Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

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