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Atheist Ireland tells OSCE meeting in Warsaw of religious discrimination against atheists and minority faiths
Atheist Ireland made two formal contributions to today's OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw, highlighting religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths in Ireland and throughout the OSCE. Jane Donnelly spoke on discrimination in the Irish education system, and Michael Nugent spoke on other forms of discrimination. We ...
Atheist Ireland is in Poland this week, highlighting the religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths throughout the OSCE, and particularly in Ireland. The event is the annual human rights conference organised by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which includes over fifty States from ...
Atheist Ireland submits report to UN for next Universal Periodic Review. Atheist Ireland has submitted the following report for the next United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Ireland's human rights record. We will also be attending the review, to lobby the Council members about religious discrimination against atheists and minority faith ...
The Association of Catholic Priests Supports Anti-Scientific Creationist Teaching in Catholic Schools. While the Roman Catholic Church is broadly supportive of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, their formal doctrine continues to insist on "human exceptionalism". That is, the Church requires that some dogmatic qualifications are applied to the ...
Are proposed reforms to end religious discrimination in Irish schools unconstitutional? This document should be read alongside the Schools Equality PACT, which asks the Irish Parliament to urgently pass a comprehensive Schools Equality Bill to reform the current State-funded religious discrimination. The PACT (Patronage, Access, Curriculum, Teaching) describes the changes ...