The United Nations is examining Ireland this year under the Universal Periodic Review. This is a unique UN Human Rights Council mechanism, established in 2006, that reviews the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States every four and a half years. Atheist Ireland...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the National Conversation on Education, hosted by the Department of Education. Feel free to use the information here to prepare your own submission to the Conversation. You can make your own submission, at this link, by this...
The Irish government has a duty under the Good Friday Agreement to take “comparable steps” to strengthen human-rights protection in Ireland, in line with developments in Northern Ireland. A recent UK Supreme Court case found that religious education arrangements in Northern Ireland schools breached the...
Atheist Ireland uses our special consultative status at the UN to highlight religious discrimination in Irish schools, and to counter inaccurate responses by the Irish state to UN human rights committees. Here are UN human rights recommendations to Ireland based on these sessions. Questions from...
As well as using our special consultative status at the UN, Atheist Ireland highlights with the Council of Europe the issue of religious discrimination in Irish schools. Here are Council of Europe human rights recommendations to Ireland. Council of Europe Protection of National Minorities 2006,...
Atheist Ireland has sent the following submission to the Oireachtas Education Committee on the need for freedom of conscience, religion, and belief in Irish schools Executive Summary This submission addresses the right to freedom of conscience, religion, and belief in the Irish education system. It...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the newly established Oireachtas Committee on Public Accounts. Oversight of the Constitutional Condition for State Aid to Schools 1. Summary 2. The Constitutional Condition for State Aid 3. Legislative Responsibility under Article 15 4. Absence of Statutory...
Atheist Ireland has made a pledge to the United Nations Human Rights 75 initiative to oppose laws against blasphemy and promote freedom of expression. 1. Background to Atheist Ireland Atheist Ireland is a voluntary advocacy group based in Ireland. We have Special Consultative Status at...
Atheist Ireland has made a pledge to the United Nations Human Rights 75 initiative to promote the consistent use of the full phrase ‘Freedom of Religion or Belief’ instead of the incomplete phrase ‘Freedom of Religion.’ 1. Background to Atheist Ireland Atheist Ireland is a...
Atheist Ireland met this week with Lt Col Padraig Brennan, chair of the Irish Defence Forces Review of the Chaplaincy service. Here are our thoughts and recommendations that we expressed at the meeting. The Defence Forces website states that “The Defence Forces are committed to...