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• Walk with Me: faith organisations lead a second public silent peace walk

  24 June 2024

  Quakers and other faith groups walked in solidarity through the streets of London on Sunday, 23 June, in a silent call for peace.

• Respect the humanity of all, Quakers urge policy makers this Refugee Week

  20 June 2024

  Quakers in Britain is marking Refugee Week by highlighting the UK's hostile immigration policies alongside Women for Refugee Women (WRW).

• Quakers call on UK to pay fair share of climate finance

  13 June 2024

  As leaders of the world's richest countries meet at a G7 meeting in Italy, Quakers are urging them deliver new, adequate climate finance to developing countries.

• Cumbria Quakers celebrate George Fox’s 400th birthday

  10 June 2024

  Four hundred years after the birth of one of their founders, Quakers in Cumbria celebrated where it all began on Firbank Fell with their annual outdoor meeting for worship.

• Quakers host two survivors of atomic bombing of Japan in 1945

  5 June 2024

  Nagasaki must be the last city in the world to ever experience an atomic bomb, two survivors of the bombings of Japan by the USA told a gathering in Friends House, London, last weekend.
  

• Joint statement on International Court of Justice orders on Gaza

  29 May 2024

  Quakers in Britain has joined 21 other charities calling on the UK government to ensure Israel complies with its obligations under international law, including immediately halting its military offensive in Rafah.

• Quaker work on conflict minerals reaches UK parliament

  23 May 2024

  Help ensure the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) benefit from the minerals mined in their own country, Quakers urged in parliament last week.

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