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• Budget call: end austerity now

  20 November 2017

  Ahead of this year's budget on Wednesday, CLASS think tank is writing an Open Letter to the government, demanding the end to austerity. Quakers in Britain are supporting the letter.

• Faith groups pledge action on climate change

  10 November 2017

  This week's global gathering on climate change brings politicians and activists to Bonn, Germany. The 23rd annual conference of the parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aims to prevent dangerous global warming. Quakers in Britain have signed statements urging the conference to take urgent action.

• Wearing poppies in hope and remembrance

  3 November 2017

  In these sombre days of Remembrance, many wear red or white poppies. Some wear both together.

• Gambling reforms raise concerns

  31 October 2017

  Today a group of Churches and faith-based organisations have welcomed the Government's announcement of a consultation on proposals for changes to gaming machines and social responsibility measures, but warned that the range of options presented for a maximum stake for fixed odds betting terminals is too wide.

• Marking the Balfour Declaration centenary

  30 October 2017

  This year marks historic anniversaries in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration conveying British support for a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine; 50 years since the start of the Israeli military occupation of Palestine; and 10 years since the beginning of the blockade of Gaza.

• Peace activists found not guilty of criminal damage

  26 October 2017

  Two young peace campaigners were found not guilty today of criminal damage.
  

• ICAN awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  9 October 2017

  Quakers in Britain have congratulated the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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