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Vigil with symbolic shoes of the dead
Chalked outlines of children, some with shoes, emphasising howArms Sales Kill, surrounded this week’s vigil. The row of shoes on the step symbolises the dead, who no longer need their shoes Women in Black London deplore the UK’s continued role in the global arms trade.  The UK is one of the 10 largest arms exporters, […]

STOP THE ARMS TRADE. STOP THE KILLING NOW

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A world at war needs your gift of peace. This year, global military spending rose to $2.2 trillion for the first time, the equivalent of $272 per person. The war on Gaza is costing Israel millions every day and the human cost to the people of Gaza and Israel is immeasurable. The USA and the […]

Give a Present for Peace this Christmas

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Climate change vigil 29 November 2023
For the last few weeks we have, once again, been focussed on conflict.  This time it is in the Middle East, but wars also continue to rage in Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, Congo and many other parts of the world. Internal and neighbour state conflicts are often caused or exacerbated by the impact of climate change […]

Fund Climate Security, Not Wars

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Women in Black London continue to urge restraint by all parties to prevent greater bloodshed in this escalated conflict. While sharing in the condemnation of Hamas’ attack on Israel we are greatly disturbed by the revenge violence that the Israeli government is pouring on the peoples of Gaza directly through bombing raids and indirectly by […]

Only justice for Palestinians can bring peace to Israel

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Women in Black London continue to urge restraint by all parties to prevent greater bloodshed in this escalated conflict. While sharing the condemnation of Hamas’ attack on Israel last week, we are greatly disturbed by the revenge violence that the Israeli government is pouring on the peoples of Gaza – directly through bombing raids and […]

Only justice for Palestinians can bring peace to Israel

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