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  • March 7, 2016
    UN expert condemns executions as ‘tantamount to torture'

    The United Nations’ expert on torture has condemned the use of the death penalty in countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran, saying executions are “tantamount to torture”, and barred by international law.

  • March 1, 2016
    A century of the right to conscientious objection

    Tomorrow (2 March) marks the centenary of the passing of the Military Service Act which brought compulsory military service into British law and with it, for the first time, the right to conscientious objection.

  • February 18, 2016
    Ban on ethical choice undemocratic say Quakers in Britain

    Government plans to ban local councils from making ethical choices in their pension investments and procurements are undemocratic, say Quakers in Britain.

  • February 17, 2016
    Kidnapped Briton spends 600th day in illegal detention

    A British father of three who was kidnapped to Ethiopia in 2014 has spent his 600th day in detention.

  • February 15, 2016
    UN reports record high casualities in Afghanistan during 2015

    The United Nations has reported that Afghan hostilities in 2015 left more than 3,500 civilians dead, including an unprecedented number of children – one in four casualties over the past year was a child – and nearly 7,500 others wounded, making this the highest number of civilian casualties recorded.

  • January 26, 2016
    Juvenile protester among Saudi mass-execution victims says Reprieve

    A protester who was under 18 at the time of the alleged offences for which he was convicted was among the 47 people executed in a single day in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, research by international human rights organisation Reprieve has found.

  • January 22, 2016
    ‘Shocking’ crimes committed by all sides in South Sudan

    Hundreds of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, gang-rapes, sexual slavery, forced abortion, massive recruitment of child soldiers and indiscriminate attacks against civilians with entire villages burned down have been perpetrated by all in sides in South Sudan, says the UN.

  • December 17, 2015
    Lawyers say government supply of arms to Saudi breaks law

    The UK Government is breaking national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia in the context of its military intervention and bombing campaign in Yemen, say international law experts.

  • November 24, 2015
    Quakers in Britain respond to terrorism

    As Parliament prepares to debate next steps in Syria, Quakers in Britain have issued a statement.

  • November 23, 2015
    UN Security Council calls for eradication of ISIS 'safe haven'

    The UN Security Council has called on all countries that can do so to take the war on terrorism to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and destroy its safe havens, warning that the group intends to mount further terror attacks like those in Paris and Beirut.