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UK Human Rights Act vital to all, Quakers say
10 December 2022
This Human Rights Day Quakers have joined 157 other organisations in calling on the UK government to protect the Human Rights Act.
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Quakers to cease using the title ‘overseer’ due to racist connotations
6 December 2022
Quakers have been asked to stop using the term 'overseer' because of its connotations of oppression and slavery.
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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 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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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 protest government drive to reopen immigration removal centres
19 October 2022
Why is the British government returning to locking up asylum seekers when alternatives are more humane and effective?