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Latest news
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Quakers join millions demanding climate justice at COP27
10 November 2022
Quakers are joining mass action across the globe to demand climate justice as states meet in Egypt to try and agree how to tackle climate change.
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Quakers concerned by Home Secretary’s inflammatory rhetoric and failures in the asylum system
3 November 2022
Quakers are writing to the Home Secretary to express concern that the 'hostile environment' of dangerously over-crowded immigration centres and demonisation of migrants in parliament is fanning the flames of hate.
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Quakers in dialogue with parliamentarians
2 November 2022
Quakers were among churches who visited the UK Parliament on 1 November to discuss bringing about positive change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
