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• Join the Hibakusha's call to eliminate nuclear weapons

  16 July 2020

  In the coming weeks, Quakers across Britain will be among millions around the world solemnly marking the 75^th anniversary of the atomic bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• Faith leaders' call to action on climate crisis

  8 July 2020

  As the lockdown to combat COVID-19 eases, faith leaders are urging every sector of civil society to use this opportunity to work together to create a better world.

• Quaker statement on potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank

  2 July 2020

  Amid uncertainty around threatened Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, Quaker Peace & Social Witness has joined American Friends Service Committee and Friends Committee on National Legislation to express their deep concern. They say annexation would make permanent a system of inequality and would deny justice to Palestinians whose rights have already been violated.

• New panel advises on LGBT+ discrimination in religious organisations

  1 July 2020

  Discrimination and prejudice within religious organisations are to be addressed by a new panel of religious figures and academics. The panel includes Quaker Hannah Brock Womack.

• Build Back Better to mend inequality

  30 June 2020

  Paul Parker, Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain, is among 350 influential figures calling for the UK to 'Build Back Better' from the COVID-19 crisis, to be a stronger, fairer, greener country.

• Annexation plans violate international law

  29 June 2020

  Quakers in Britain have joined a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations to oppose further illegal Israeli annexation of occupied Palestine.

• Church leaders oppose further annexation of the West Bank

  29 June 2020

  Church leaders from the United Reformed Church, Church of Scotland, Quakers in Britain, Methodist Church, Church of England and Catholic Church have called on the UK government to help deter annexation of the West Bank, which could begin from 1 July:

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