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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In an article in the Irish Times today the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin is quoted as stating that a pluralist Ireland can only happen through “dialogue and respect". He is also quoted as stating that "Elements in society are ‘allergic’ to mention of faith in schools’ system.” The ...