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• Quakers opening warm banks despite ‘rage at necessity’

  2 November 2022

  Quakers offer meeting houses as warm spaces, but call for solutions which tackle the root causes of fuel poverty.

• Quaker school student held without charge by Israeli military

  26 October 2022

  A 16-year-old student at Ramallah Friends School in Palestine has been arrested and held without charge by the Israeli military since 18 October.

• Quakers endorse calls for wealthy nations to stop blocking funding for climate loss and damage

  25 October 2022

  Thirty-one years after the first calls for financial support for those wrestling with climate disasters, a new brief calls for a loss and damage finance facility to be agreed at COP27 in Egypt.

• Quakers put priorities to new PM

  25 October 2022

  Quakers in Britain have written to new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, urging him to focus on climate, cost-of-living, peace, and truth.

• Public Order Bill passes milestone

  19 October 2022

  A bill which would drastically limit the right to protest in England and Wales has passed through the House of Commons.

• Quakers protest government drive to reopen immigration removal centres

  19 October 2022

  Why is the British government returning to locking up asylum seekers when alternatives are more humane and effective?

• Quakers fight deportation of Zimbabwean Quaker human rights defender

  13 October 2022

  Quakers in Stockton-on-Tees have rallied around a fellow Quaker who fears for her life if returned to Zimbabwe thanks to the UK government's hostile environment for asylum seekers.

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