The number of young adults serving long prison sentences is significantly growing, campaigners have warned.
A report by Defend Our Juries and Queen Mary University has revealed how British courts have increasingly used remand detention, contempt proceedings, and lengthy custodial…
Young Friends went ‘fully vegan’ last month at their Spiritual Review in Bristol. Around seventy attended the gathering, which is held every few years for reflection on the…
Britain Yearly Meeting has signed a petition calling on the UK government to rule out military conscription, or any form of compulsory national service involving the armed forces.
A lifelong Quaker peaceworker has embarked on a decade-long walking challenge, almost thirty years after he helped establish the only peace museum in the UK.
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) has launched a new online briefing designed to help people understand prisons in England and Wales – ‘and the people held within them’.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called for the release of two women imprisoned in Russia for defending indigenous rights and the climate.
Peace campaigners have criticised the government’s decision to grant new export licences for military equipment headed for Israel.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that the government’s legislative agenda is ‘shaped by a dangerous turn towards security, threat and control’.
A Quaker-linked astronomer who discovered what stars are made of has been honoured with a blue plaque.
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