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- SAQN 256, August 2025, now available 27 August 2025
- Epistle of the BBIPOC Gathering 7 July 2025
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- SAQN 255, October 2024, now available 30 October 2024
- SA Quaker News — March 2024 — Issue 254 28 March 2024
Category Archives: World issues
CFSC peace-building initiative: Syria – imagine another way
The Canadian Friends Service Committee (CSFC) hopes to start some creative new thinking with the animated video shared on their website. Watch it on the CSFC website.
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Human Rights, World issues
Tagged just peace, peace initiatives, peace-building intiatives, Syria, war
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FWCC news: three major meetings coming up
FWCC is asking Friends to uphold three important gatherings that are taking place between now and 8 April. These meetings will guide the work of FWCC in the Americas and Africa, as well as at the global level. Click the … Continue reading
Human rights of migrants in the context of large movements
On 10th March the Human Rights Council held an Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the human rights of migrants in the context of large movements. Read the QUNO article on this by clicking the link below Human Rights Council discusses human … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Human Rights, Modern living, Quaker community, World issues
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C@SAYM Quakers endorse SACC condemnation of xenophobic violence
“I … most certainly want to associate Quakers with [it]. It fits right in with our ethos …” — Helen Holleman, Clerk of C&SAYM Click the SACC logo at the right to download the PDF file of the statement, or read … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Position Statements, Quaker community, World issues
Tagged C&SAYM, Racism, refugees, Xenophobia
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FWCC Arts Calendar 2018 to celebrate Quaker Peacemaking
For the artists among us, FWCC is partnering with Linda Murgatroyd to produce an arts calendar for 2018 celebrating Quaker Peacemaking around the world. We are keen to include artworks reflecting Quaker peacemaking around the world, and of different kinds, in a … Continue reading
Quakers stand alongside victims of racist policies
Further to the item on forced migration carried in Quaker News 97 (and shared on this site last week), Ekklesia has published the following item. Ekklesia is an independent, not-for-profit thinktank which orients its work around the changing role of beliefs, values … Continue reading
Responding to forced migration
Britain Yearly Meeting’s Quaker News number 97 covers the current migration tragedy being played out on the world stage. Click on the link to download the PDF version of Quaker News 97.
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Newsletters, Publications, Quaker community, Resources, Uplift and outreach, World community, World issues
Tagged Europe, Refugee crisis, refugees, response
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Hiroshima Day, Saturday 6th August 2016
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, History, World community, World issues
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Launch of Xenowatch – Wednesday 10 August 2016
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), iAfrikan, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees cordially invite you to the launch of Xenowatch, a newly-created platform to monitor xenophobic threats and violence across South Africa. Over the past … Continue reading
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Quakers say “no” to TTIP
On 20 May 2016 Ecclesia published an article that begins as follows: “Five Quaker organisations from Europe and the United States have asked governments to say ‘no’ to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the controversial ‘mega’ trade deal being … Continue reading