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Protect the right to boycott unethical companies, Quakers urge MPs

Updated 4 February 2025

Quakers have joined nearly 70 civil society organisations in calling on MPs to reject the government's controversial anti-boycott bill, tabled this week.

Protect the right to boycott unethical companies, Quakers urge MPs

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Quakers concerned by Home Secretary’s inflammatory rhetoric and failures in the asylum system

Updated 4 February 2025

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.

Quakers concerned by Home Secretary’s inflammatory rhetoric and failures in the asylum system

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Quakers will not profit from the occupation of Palestine

Updated 19 November 2018

Quakers in Britain has today become the first church in the UK to announce it will not invest any of its centrally-held funds in companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine.

Quakers will not profit from the occupation of Palestine

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New film takes stand against militarism

Updated 17 October 2018

War School, a provocative film launched this week, is set to challenge the British government's attempt to entice children into support for war.

New film takes stand against militarism

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Why does taking action for just peace in Palestine and Israel support our work for climate justice?

Updated 15 November 2023

On 19 June this year, the UK Government tabled a bill that infringes on our right to use boycott and divestment as peaceful means of protest. The 'Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill' (or 'Anti-boycott bill') aims to prevent public bodies (such as local authorities, universities, some pension funds and other public institutions like the National Health Service) from making financial decisions based on ethical choices.

Why does taking action for just peace in Palestine and Israel support our work for climate justice?

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Time to breathe

Updated 1 June 2023

"Corrymeela begins when you leave", say the words carved into wood above the door. Corrymeela's residential centre near Ballycastle in Northern Ireland, was the setting for the first in-person gathering of the Peacebuilding Network (UK and Ireland). Corrymeela has been facilitating work on peace and reconciliation since 1965 before, during, and after the Troubles. As a membership organisation, it offers much more than a residential space but that's what we needed as we gathered together in warm May sunshine.

Time to breathe

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Straight, not narrow: John Lampen addresses some misconceptions over the Peace Testimony

Updated 6 November 2024

Some recent writing in the Friend has implied that our Peace Testimony contains a duty not to take sides when faced with the world's conflicts. This is a misunderstanding that could mislead Friends, and give a wrong impression about our peace witness.

Straight, not narrow: John Lampen addresses some misconceptions over the Peace Testimony

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Local government: why it matters

Updated 7 October 2019

It often seems as if national politics is all that matters. With headlines dominated by national and international issues, it's easy to forget how much change actually happens at the local level.

Local government: why it matters

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A day with Korean Quaker Bongsoo Kwag

Updated 16 December 2025

Quakerism has had a strong presence in Korea since the war, with the message of peace and reconciliation finding fertile ground on the divided peninsula.

A day with Korean Quaker Bongsoo Kwag

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Remembering the conscientious objectors of World War I in Kansas City

Updated 9 December 2022

Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and once the western frontier of the United States. The sprawling Mississippi flanks its border with the state of Kansas. It marks a boundary, the former division between the Union and the slave-owning states of the South.

Remembering WWI conscientious objectors in Kansas City