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  • Quaker Lobby Applauds House Passage of Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC (July 18, 2018) – The Quaker lobby, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) applauded the House of Representatives for passing the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act (H.R. 3030). Named after Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the bill ensures the U.S. government is equipped with the most constructive and cost-effective tools to address the root causes of violent conflict.
  • David Marshall Culp, Jr: In Memoriam

    Statement | June 14, 2023
    Our entire FCNL community is mourning the loss of our colleague and friend whose passion and leadership on issues of nuclear disarmament, the outdoors, and Washington, DC politics was second to none.
  • Why I Have to Be In Washington this November

    Update | September 12, 2017
    I have to be in Washington, DC this year November 2-5 for the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Annual Meeting.
  • Quaker Peace Advocacy in Two Decades of War

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    Twenty years after the shock and grief of Sept. 11, 2001, its legacy lives on in U.S. policies of perpetual warfare.
  • Statement on the Peace Testimony and Ukraine

    Statement | November 2, 2022
    Quakers are a people who follow after peace, love and unity. Our peace testimony is our witness to the Truth as we experience it. We continue to support peacebuilding measures. We call on the governments of Ukraine, Russia, neighboring countries, the United States, NATO and the European Union, to explore all avenues—whether public or private—for a renewed conversation to address the human security needs of all the peoples and countries in the region, to help provide the basis for long term peace.
  • Minute on the U.S. Embargo of Cuba, New England Yearly Meeting

    Meeting Minute | February 28, 2025
    New England Quakers have become aware of the hardships to the Cuban people of the Embargo of the United States on the Cuban economy. Cuban Quakers are sensitive to the impacts on all Cubans, Quaker and non-Quaker. Cuban Quakers attempt to soften the effects on the people in their local communities.
  • My Continuing FCNL Journey

    Update | January 27, 2023
    I became a Quaker because of FCNL. Part of that story is personal, tied to the people I have met through this work, including my fellow intern and now husband. FCNL has introduced me to communities and people who are now, quite literally, my family.
  • We Seek a Just Migration System

    Update | December 30, 2024

    The World We Seek guides the efforts of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

  • We Are Our Own Medicine

    Background | January 3, 2017

    A report of an American Friends Service Committee Delegation to Standing Rock

  • Immigration Lobby Training Workshop

    Event | June 12, 2020
    Join FCNL’s Hannah Evans for a lobby training workshop on federal immigration policy.