'Funding must be new and additional, not taken from development aid or priorities such as health and education.'…
by Rebecca Hardy
‘The Human Rights Act has an appendix excluding serving members of the armed forces from some of the clauses.'
‘The idea of the quiz is for QICJ members to have a tool to raise awareness in their various Meetings of facts relating to prisons during Prisons Week.'
‘Our children and grandchildren will ask us what we were doing as our government turned their backs on climate commitments.'
'In recent months we have seen the horrific consequences of failing to protect the natural world.'
‘The custodianship of the memorial has passed to Staffordshire Area Meeting, which originally initiated the concern, and welcomes its return.’
'The 1823 Gaol Act, which Elizabeth Fry was involved in, mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual abuse and harassment.'
'Quaker MP Ruth Cadbury and other MPs commended BYM on its climate and peace work in the first ever parliamentary debate on climate loss and damage this month.'
‘The only sensible conclusion is that they are trying to bully people into silence. It is our responsibility as Quakers to defend the right which the Quakers of the past won for all of us.’
‘Our intention is that EarthQuaker will be a community space for Quakers engaging with climate and ecological crisis. It should enable Friends engaged in different ways to share experiences, spiritual insights and learning.'
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