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Quaker Lobby Supports Indian Boarding Schools Truth & Healing Bill
FCNL welcomed the re-reintroduction of the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Policies in the U.S. Act.Quaker Lobby Honors Representative Jacobs at 80th Annual Meeting
Representative Sara Jacobs will receive FCNL’s Edward F. Snyder Award for Peace this evening during their 80th Annual Meeting, taking place through November 19.Help! My Representatives Never Agree with Me
It can be frustrating when your members of Congress disagree with you on many or even most issues. But with persistence, organizing, and strategy, you can move your members of Congress toward peace and justice.FCNL Statement for the Record for House Judiciary Committee Markup of Anti-Refugee Bill
Quakers are challenged to answer that of God in all people and therefore called to act with openness to all refugees, regardless of their country of origin or religion. FCNL calls on Congress to treat refugees with the same dignity and respect and urges the Committee to support the U.S. refugee resettlement program.Trade for Well-Being, Not Just for Profit
On May 19th, FCNL joined the American Friends Service Committee, Quaker Council for European Affairs, Quaker Peace & Social Witness, and the Quaker UN Office in releasing a shared Quaker statement on TTIP and free trade agreements.FCNL Written Statement for Senate Judiciary Hearing on U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program
Statement of Yasmine Taeb, Legislative Representative for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Hearing on: “Oversight of the Administration’s FY 2017 Refugee Resettlement Program.”On National Women’s Equality Day—Still Reaching for Our Democratic Ideals
We are still becoming a full democracy. Not until August 26, 1920, when Congress adopted the nineteenth amendment prohibiting states from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex, could women cast a ballot.A Roadmap to Prioritize Peace
FCNL has issued a series of reports that offer recommendations to President Biden for his first 100 days and to Congress for putting peace at the core of U.S. foreign policy.We must not stop taking action to protect Medicaid
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FCNL and More Than 100 Other Organizations Call for Commitments to Peace
Sept. 21 marks the International Day of Peace, which was established in 1981 by a unanimous resolution in the U.N.’s General Assembly. To mark the day, FCNL joined over 100 peacebuilding organizations from around the world in issuing a statement to U.N. member states that brings attention to peace concerns.