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Action, Peacemaking · 14 March, 2024

Myanmar: Remembering a Forgotten Conflict

Photo of protesters in Myanmar following the 2021 coup.

Our churches recently issued prayers for Myanmar to mark three years since the 2021 Myanmar coup. For the people of Myanmar, this marks three years of living under repressive military rule. Three years of civil war. Three years of civilians being targeted, injured and brutally killed. Three years …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog · 21 August, 2018

Should the government’s power ever be used to create destitution?

Twenty Church leaders have written to Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, to call for an end to the Government’s hostile environment immigration policy because “it is inhumane to use destitution, or the threat of destitution, as a policy tool to encourage people to leave the country.” As we outline in …

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