Secular Sunday #514 – Rights of the Child and a Book Launch
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Rights of the Child and a Book Launch The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth is preparing Ireland's 5th/6th State Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of ...
Atheist Ireland asks Department to protect rights of children from secular families in schools
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth is preparing Ireland's 5th/6th State Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the consultation on the draft State Report. We are making this submission with regard to three aspects of the Draft ...
Secular Sunday #513 – The positive right to hold atheist beliefs
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial The positive right to hold atheist beliefs Atheist Ireland made a submission this week to the Department of Justice’s review of the Equality Acts. We want the category of ‘religion’ under the ...
Atheist Ireland asks Government to amend the Equality Acts to protect nonreligious beliefs
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Department of Justice's consultation on the review of the Equality Acts. You can make a submission yourself, before 29th November, after reading the details on the Department's website. Please feel free to include points that we have made in our submission. ...
Secular Sunday #512 – The right to protection from discrimination as an atheist
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The right to protection from discrimination as an atheist Atheist Ireland has sent a submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s consultation for their Strategy Statement 2022-24. We have ...
Atheist Ireland asks IHREC to protect the positive right to nonreligious philosophical beliefs
Atheist Ireland sent this submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission's consultation for their Strategy Statement 2022-24. We have also taken part in a follow-up meeting about our submission. We are asking the Commission to protect the positive right to nonreligious philosophical beliefs, by promoting a change in our Equality Laws ...
The Frontline Workers Public Holiday should not be linked with religion
Atheist Ireland has sent the following letter to the Taoiseach and members of the Cabinet. The purpose of the new public holiday is to mark the efforts of frontline workers during the Covid pandemic. The most obvious way to do that is to call it the Frontline Workers Public Holiday, ...
Secular Sunday #511 – Parents’ rights and attending religious education
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial Parents' rights and attending religious education Atheist Ireland wrote this week to the Department of Education asking them to remove a Circular Letter from 2018 in relation to Religious Education in ETB ...
Secular Sunday #510 – Help to free Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Help to free Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi Over 200 secular activists and groups have called for today, Sunday 3 October, to be recognised as International #SoheilDay in solidarity with Soheil Arabi, ...
Free Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi
Over 200 secular activists and groups have called for today, Sunday 3 October, to be recognised as International #SoheilDay in solidarity with Soheil Arabi, an atheist political prisoner in Iran. The campaign is run by Maryam Namazie and Jimmy Bangash of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Michael Nugent and ...