Atheist Ireland rejects Holy See claims about Irish schools at OSCE
The Irish State has ceded control of most of our publicly funded schools to a Church that swaps at will between being a religion and being a foreign state. This foreign State claims internationally they are not responsible for the running of Catholic schools in Ireland, while at the same time ...
Atheist Ireland Statement on International Blasphemy Rights Day 2016
Today, on International Blasphemy Rights Day, the eleventh anniversary of the Danish Mohammad cartoons, Atheist Ireland calls for the urgent repeal of the Irish blasphemy law, and the release of all prisoners held around the world on blasphemy and related charges, of which we include fifteen examples in this statement. ...
Solidarity between Irish and Polish abortion rights campaigns
The Irish and Polish abortion rights campaigns have been acting in solidarity in the past week. Today, pictured centre-left above, Nina Sankari of the KLF Polish atheist foundation spoke at a protest at the Irish Embassy in Poland in support of the Irish campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. Yesterday, ...
Holy See responds to Atheist Ireland at OSCE in Warsaw about religious-run schools
The Holy See today responded to Atheist Ireland's contribution at the OSCE on religious discrimination in Irish schools. We will have a full analysis later, including how the Holy See's response contrasts with its submission to the UN Committee on the rights of the Child, but for now here are ...
Atheist Ireland tells OSCE to defend secular education, free expression and abortion
Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland today told the annual OSCE human rights meeting that Ireland and other OSCE States must protect the rights to education, expression and abortion as part of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief. We also spoke yesterday on the need to tackle ...
Atheist Ireland tells OSCE to tackle religious discrimination and prejudice-motivated crime
Atheist Ireland today told the annual OSCE human rights meeting that Ireland and other OSCE States must tackle prejudice-motivated crimes and religious discrimination. We will be speaking again tomorrow on freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief. Here is our contribution to today's session: Atheist Ireland supports the OSCE in ...
Atheist Ireland addresses UN Human Rights Council on blasphemy, schools and abortion
Atheist Ireland today told the UN Human Rights Council that Ireland needs to remove the ban on blasphemy, religious discrimination in schools, and the ban on abortion. In doing so we became the first atheist advocacy group to address the full UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Council was ...
Atheist Ireland to speak on human rights at UN in Geneva and OSCE in Warsaw
Next Friday 23rd September Atheist Ireland will become the first Atheist advocacy group to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. We will make this speech during the adoption of the Report from Ireland at the 33rd Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). We will then go ...
New Government Education Action Plan fails to address religious discrimination
The Government today launched its Action Plan for Education, which it says is aimed at becoming the best education service in Europe. It is already the best education service in Europe for breaching the human rights of atheists, secularists, and members of minority faiths who want inclusive schools that treat ...
Atheist Ireland to address UN Human Rights Council on religious discrimination in Ireland
In two weeks time, Atheist Ireland will become the first atheist advocacy group to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva as members of Atheist Alliance International. The Council will be concluding its second Universal Periodic Review of Ireland’s human rights record on 23 September. Atheist Ireland will ...