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UN climate talks to begin in Warsaw
Climate change is on the international agenda next week in Warsaw when negotiators meet for a new round of talks under the UN Climate Convention. The Polish capital will host thousands of representatives from governments, industry and NGOs.
Cambridge Peace Trail
A new booklet has been launched guiding tourists around a peace trail in Cambridge. Pictured above is the Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter which urges us to ‘Remember’, while inviting tired tourists and shoppers to rest.
War trauma worst for disadvantaged young
Young soldiers recruited from disadvantaged backgrounds are much more likely to return from war with mental health problems than other troops, says a new report published by human rights group ForcesWatch.
New project on Quaker business history
Nicola Sleap has been appointed as researcher to a new PhD research project into twentieth century Quaker business history. The project is the first PhD to be funded by the Quakers and Business Group (Q&B). The research will examine the period from the first national conference of...
Apology requested
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting was among the twelve senior representatives from churches and Christian organisations in the United Kingdom who, on 24 October, wrote to David Freud, minister for welfare reform, after he failed to ‘affirm that steps would be taken to ensure that the poor would...
A Remembrance Day to remember
On Remembrance Sunday, 10 November, Bradford Meeting and other concerned groups are organising two events as the start of their commemoration of the onset of the first world war.
Back to the future for public money?
Nothing but trouble has come from market fundamentalism, professor Mary Mellor told Newcastle Friends at a public meeting of their Economic Justice Group on 24 October. ‘This system has done us no good at all,’ she said.
Militarisation in everyday life
Newcastle doesn’t have a lot of job opportunities. What incentive is there for a government to put in more job opportunities if the way they are going to recruit their army is out of kids with nowhere else to go? – Saskia Neibig, member of the Woodcraft Folk and...
Quakers concern about RE
Friends in the south-west have highlighted a concern about the future of Religious Education (RE) in schools in England. The issue was raised in a public meeting on education organised by Devon and Cornwall General Meeting and Exeter Area Meeting on Saturday 19 October in Exeter.
Welsh Quakers highlight terror of drones
The terrible damage done to both victims and pilots of drone strikes was raised at a public meeting held at Aberystwyth Friends Meeting House on Tuesday 15 October.