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Joint statement on mass starvation across Gaza

Updated 24 July 2025

24 July 2025

Joint statement from over 100 humanitarian organisations

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Quaker statement on the UK government’s move to recognise Palestine

Updated 30 July 2025

The future recognition of Palestine is one step, but the UK must act now to end this inhumanity.

Quaker statement on the UK government’s move to recognise Palestine

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Merchants of death relocate after two years of protest

Updated 2 September 2025

One of the UK's biggest arms fairs is to relocate from Telford to Birmingham following two years of persistent protest.

Merchants of death relocate after two years of protest

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Quakers hold peaceful worship outside arms fair profiting from war and genocide

Updated 10 September 2025

Quakers worshipped peacefully outside the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair at London's ExCeL Centre yesterday, in protest at how the UK enables war profiteers.

Quakers hold peaceful worship outside arms fair profiting from war and genocide

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Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case

Updated 11 September 2025

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case

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Why we must talk about conscientious objection

Updated 11 December 2022

For many people, it seems obvious that human beings should have the right to refuse to kill. Yet we must be able to explain our choices of conscientious objection; it is an age-old discussion that continues throughout each generation.

Why we must talk about conscientious objection

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How can educators respond to events in Palestine and Israel?

Updated 2 February 2024

Quakers are making Razor Wire & Olive Branches resources downloadable for free and the physical pack available at a discount. We've sign-posted more resources for educators below.

How can educators respond to events in Palestine and Israel?

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Why I am still a pacifist

Updated 12 February 2024

I became General Secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation in January of 2022, a role of service to the world's 400,000 or so Quakers, who collectively comprise one of the world's traditional peace churches.

Why I am still a pacifist

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Peace and the general election: where do the parties stand?

Updated 27 June 2024

Recently, I took advantage of a rare invitation to an event at the House of Commons to buttonhole the MP hosting it. The week before, I'd asked my colleagues if there was anything they'd like me to ask him. And so, amid the chink of wine glasses and the steady dispatch of canapés, I found myself enquiring of the honourable member, "What makes you feel safe?"

Peace and the general election: where do the parties stand?

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6 ways our new government could build a peaceful and sustainable world

Updated 25 July 2024

Now that the UK has a new government, many will be watching to see how Labour's campaign translates into reality. We'll be hoping, of course, that it will result in positive changes for two topics that perhaps were not as prominent in the election campaign as we would have liked: climate justice and peace.

6 ways our new government could build a peaceful and sustainable world