Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge said she had known Navi Pillay since the struggle to end apartheid, adding: ‘She is from my province. I am really proud of her!’…
by Rebecca Hardy
The National Trust is facing renewed pressure to drop its links with fossil-fuel banking.
Quakers joined campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament last week to call for oil and gas companies to pay their fair share towards climate damage.
Members of Friends International Centre Church in Kenya are calling for the church to be reopened.
The Quaker-linked Rowntree Society has launched a new website, to help more people explore Rowntree histories.
A Norwich Quaker held a silent one-woman protest last month as twenty white people gathered with St George’s flags.
Organisers of last month’s Quaker silent vigil were encouraged to receive a letter from the prime minister’s office last week.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls for the military’s climate impact to be fully included in the UK’s plans to tackle climate change.
Central England Quakers (CEQ) launched a new Quaker Meeting at the University of Warwick last month.
Friends have joined calls for the UK government to resist pressure from the North Sea oil and gas industry to scrap the windfall tax on fossil-fuel firms three years early.
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