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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.

• 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.

• ‘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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Quakers call on government to stop demonising asylum seekers

  17 August 2023

  The government must recognise that of God in everyone, Quakers said this week as the 'hostile environment' towards those who seek our help continued to bear its dreadful fruit.

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