Atheist Ireland | October 2014

27/10/2014 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland’s achievements in 2014

Atheist Ireland had a very busy and successful 2014, with breakthroughs in international lobbying at the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the OSCE annual human rights meeting; ongoing national lobbying on secular education and healthcare as well as laws including blasphemy and the Civil Registration Act; plus strong organisational ...

26/10/2014 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #148 – Eh? Gee, Em…

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23/10/2014 Atheist Ireland

Will we have to vote on blasphemy with religious oaths, Bibles and symbols in polling stations?

Last July in their Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Ireland, the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and & Political Rights stated the following: “The State party should take concrete steps to amend articles 12, 31 and 34 of the Constitution that require ...

19/10/2014 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #147 – Every Little Helps

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19/10/2014 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland AGM and Public Meeting, Saturday 25 October, Wynns Hotel DUblin

The 2014 Atheist Ireland AGM will take place next Saturday, 25 October, in Wynnes Hotel in Abbey Street, Dublin. The morning session, from 11am to 12.30pm, is for members only. The afternoon session, from 2pm to 4pm, is open to the public. We will then be going for an informal ...

19/10/2014 Michael Nugent

The Atheist Ireland AGM is on Saturday. Here’s a review of our political work and breakthroughs during the past year

The 2014 Atheist Ireland AGM will take place next Saturday, 25 October, in Wynnes Hotel in Abbey Street, Dublin. We will publish details of the agenda later today. As usual, the morning session will be for members only (you can join on the day) and the afternoon session will be ...

16/10/2014 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland’s human rights recommendations are now online on the OSCE website

Atheist Ireland’s recommendations to the OSCE human rights meeting in Warsaw last month are now available here on the OSCE website, along with the following documents: Our formal statements to the meeting, Dublin Declaration on Secularism and Religion in Public Life 5 steps to secularism securing civil rights in Ireland ...

12/10/2014 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #146 – God Is Still Dead

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05/10/2014 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #145 – Believe It or Not

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03/10/2014 Atheist Ireland

Protecting the human rights of atheists – Michael Nugent at the annual OSCE human rights meeting in Poland this week

This is video and text of Michael Nugent's contributions to the annual OSCE human rights meeting in Warsaw, Poland, earlier this week. Contribution to Session on Discrimination The OSCE Guidelines for reviewing laws about freedom of religion or belief, stress the ‘or belief’ part of that phrase. That’s the part that ...