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  • Just Migration: Seeing Beyond the Border

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    FCNL will host a conversation about faith and community work on the border and across the nation, exploring how we can advance policies that uphold the worth of every individual. Speakers joining us are Jennifer Long, Anika Forest, and Bridget Moix.
  • Quaker Lobby Supports Indian Boarding Schools Truth & Healing Bill

    Press Release | February 7, 2024
    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

    Press Release | November 16, 2023
    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

    Advocacy Resource | February 15, 2023
    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

    Statement | April 1, 2018
    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

    Statement | February 3, 2017
    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 | October 14, 2016
    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

    Update | August 25, 2020
    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

    Background | February 4, 2022
    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.
  • FCNL and More Than 100 Other Organizations Call for Commitments to Peace

    Letter | September 20, 2019
    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.