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• Quakers reach out to new government ministers

  7 August 2024

  Quakers in Britain have written to members of the newly-appointed cabinet to raise key priorities.

• Quakers call for peacebuilding in violent times

  5 August 2024

  Quakers in Britain are shocked and saddened by the recent violence on our streets.

• Quakers from around the world gather in South Africa

  5 August 2024

  Quakers from around the world landed in South Africa on Monday, 5 August, for the first world plenary in eight years.

• 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.

• Swarthmore Lecture: the challenge of doing justice

  1 August 2024

  Quakers should renew their efforts in the field of penal reform, Ben Jarman said at this year's Swarthmore Lecture on 27 July.

• 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.

• Quakers welcome measures to restore asylum rights

  29 July 2024

  The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has welcomed moves by the new Labour government to restore the rights of people seeking asylum.

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