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16/04/2015 Atheist Ireland

How Religion Harms Education – Talk by Aron Ra next Tuesday, 21 April, at public meeting in Dublin

Aron Ra, Texas State Director of American Atheists, will be speaking in Dublin next Tuesday evening at a public meeting organised by Atheist Ireland, about how religion harms education. It will be Aron's first talk for Atheist Ireland since our successful World Atheist Convention in Dublin in 2011. The meeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

05/08/2014 Michael Nugent

Pictures of Atheist Ireland briefing the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva

Here are some pictures of Atheist Ireland and Alison Mawhinny, along with other Irish NGOs, briefing the UN Human Rights Committee at the formal and informal sessions in Geneva. Alison is an independent academic who worked with Atheist Ireland on Freedom of Religion issues. The pictures are from the Centre ...

23/05/2014 Michael Nugent

Please join or rejoin Atheist Ireland, and help to promote an ethical secular Ireland

Atheist Ireland is seeking new members to help us to promote an ethical secular Ireland, where your child can attend school without religious discrimination and indoctrination, and can grow up to aspire to be Taoiseach or President or a Judge without having to swear a religious oath. You can also ...

21/09/2013 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland to develop first Irish course about atheism for primary schools

Atheist Ireland will launch two important initiatives at our AGM today, Saturday 21 September, in the Harbour Hotel in Galway, from 10 am to 5 pm. We will be launching the Dublin Declaration on Secularism Empowering Women, that was drafted at our international conference on this topic in June. This ...

21/09/2013 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland annual report and agenda for 2013 AGM

1. Report of Activities since 2012 AGM 2. Financial Report for 2012 3. Committee Elections 2013 4. Priorities and Plans for 2013-2014 1. Report of Activities since 2012 AGM In October 2012, we launched our Good WIthout Gods initiative to encourage charitable and otherwise worthwhile activities by our members and ...

03/07/2013 Atheist Ireland

The panel on promoting secular values in society at EWTS 2013

These are the talks from the panel on promoting secular values in society at Atheist Ireland's international conference in Dublin on Empowering Women Through Secularism on 29-30 June 2013. Leonie Hilliard, Atheist Ireland Nina Sankari, Polish Rationalist Association Farhana Shakir, legal consultant, Pakistan PZ Myers, scientist, USA

02/07/2013 Atheist Ireland

The panel on reproductive rights and Irish abortion law at EWTS 2013

These are the talks from the panel on reproductive rights and Irish abortion law at Atheist Ireland's international conference in Dublin on Empowering Women Through Secularism on 29-30 June 2013. Ailbhe Smyth, UCD, Ireland Anthea McTiernan, journalist, Ireland Ophelia Benson, author, USA Ross Kelly, Doctors For Choice, Ireland Clare Daly, ...