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• No safe hands for unsafe weapons

  5 January 2018

  An international gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners and peace activists met in Friends House this week to face a challenge: how to get nuclear states on side with the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

• Faith leaders say no to nuclear weapons

  14 December 2017

  In a week when the Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons, leaders from all faiths across the UK are calling on the government to affirm the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

• Marking the Nobel Peace Prize anniversary

  11 December 2017

  This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee, representing British and Americans Quakers.

• Standing up for human rights

  10 December 2017

  Amid great constitutional change and uncertainty and on UN Human Rights Day, Quakers in Britain are joining more than 140 civil society groups in an open letter to the prime minister. They are seeking commitment to “stand firm on universal human rights standards as the foundation of a forward-looking UK".

• Congratulating ICAN on Nobel Peace Prize

  8 December 2017

  The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize will be presented this weekend to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. ICAN is a coalition that includes Quaker Peace & Social Witness.

• Quakers condemn US recognition of Jerusalem

  6 December 2017

  Quakers in Britain have made this statement responding to the announcement from the president of the United States concerning Jerusalem.

• Challenging immigration policies

  4 December 2017

  Britain's Quakers are pledging to challenge immigration policies. The position takes a stand against the scandal of indefinite immigration detention, pledges support for 'new, peaceful, safer routes of migration', and opposes the possibility of unjust deportations and forced removals.

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