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19 October 2021

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...

17 October 2021

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...

14 October 2021

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,...

11 October 2021

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...

10 October 2021

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...

3 October 2021

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...

3 October 2021

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...

30 September 2021

The proposed new bank holiday should be inclusive not religious

If the Government is to introduce a new bank holiday, it should not be named after or associated with any religious or atheistic figure or belief. It should simply be an inclusive public holiday for everybody, regardless of their religious beliefs or nonreligious philosophical convictions....

26 September 2021

Secular Sunday #509 – Misuse of public funds for in-service teacher training

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Misuse of public funds for in-service teacher training   Atheist Ireland wrote a few weeks ago to the Minister for Education, the Oireachtas Education Committee,...

19 September 2021

Secular Sunday #508 – International funding of political campaigns

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial International funding of political campaigns   Millions of euros in international funding, including from America and Russia, are spent within European countries to campaign politically...

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