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Quakers call for ceasefire
Britain Yearly Meeting has joined American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Quaker United Nations Office, in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Huddersfield Peace Lecture on gender-based violence
Huddersfield Friends held their annual peace lecture earlier this month. It was titled ‘From Yorkshire to Brazil and Back Again: Getting better responses to violence against women’.
Meeting for Sufferings: Modern day slavery
Sunday morning started with Friends considering a minute from Surrey & Hampshire Border Area Meeting (AM) on modern day slavery.
Meeting for Sufferings: Sudan
Next on the agenda was a letter of concern from Doncaster Friends calling on church leaders to show support for the city’s large Sudanese community, and Sudan as a whole.
Meeting for Sufferings: IPP sentencing
Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences were also considered, with a minute from Central England AM. A representative from the Community Justice Group said that, with 3,000 people still in jail under these indeterminate sentences, ‘We ask that renewed energy is put into lobbying the government on this matter, particularly in...
BYM ‘shocked and deeply saddened’ by Israel and Palestine
Quakers in Britain are shocked and deeply saddened by the major escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) said last week.
EAPPI volunteers safely home
Two Irish nationals who monitor the human rights situation in Palestine, in a programme managed by Quakers in Britain, have been evacuated.
Quakers flag state of UK prisons
Quakers have spoken out about the conditions of prisoners, highlighted in a major newspaper investigation last month.
Sexual assaults at army training college
Nine rapes were reported to the police at Harrogate’s Army Foundation College last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown.
Meeting for Sufferings: Central reviews
Friends also heard from the group appointed to review Yearly Meeting (YM), Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) and Meeting for Sufferings (MfS). Keith Walton, a member of the review group, spoke to its proposals following the criteria laid out at July’s YM.