Three Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) groups have been working to create peace-related workshops, resources on ‘Sustainable Security’, and on ways to promote alternative…
An urgent challenge to a teenage boy’s ‘prolonged solitary confinement’ in a London prison will be heard in the High Court.
The right to believe in God the way you want, and to practice a faith the way you believe, is a basic human right World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit…
One hundred years after the conviction of a leading woman figure in the anti-war movement campaigners are calling for a review of her case by the Criminal Cases Review Commission…
Headley Brothers Limited of Ashford in Kent, printers of the Friend magazine for sixty-five years, went into administration on the morning of 2 March and a deal for the…
A panel of Quaker speakers will take part as a main stage event at this year’s Hay Book Festival. The names of those participating in the event on Sunday 28 May will be released…
Green Quaker MEP Molly Scott-Cato has welcomed a new EU directive that addresses the problem of money laundering. The economic and legal committees in the European Parliament…
Esther Leighton, a disabled Friend living in Cambridge, has taken legal action against several businesses in the Mill Road area of the city after they repeatedly ignored requests…
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has launched a new briefing paper for Friends: Protecting refugees and migrants under the New York Declaration: challenges and opportunities…
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