We at Atheist Ireland are sad to hear of the death of Sir Nigel Rodley, former Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee, a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, a trustee of Freedom from Torture, and UN Special Rapporteur on torture. He was...
TV3’s Ireland AM has invited and then removed Jane Donnelly, Human Rights Officer of Atheist Ireland, from an interview this Tuesday morning about the Baptism rule in Irish schools. TV3 told Atheist Ireland that Michael Barron of Equate had issued TV3 with an ultimatum that...
One of Atheist Ireland’s priorities this year will be campaigning for the right of atheists and religious minorities to access the teaching profession. As well as being able to legally discriminate against pupils and their parents, State funded Irish schools can also legally discriminate against...
The current edition of La Raison, the magazine of La Libre Pensee, has an interview with Michael Nugent about atheism and secularism in Ireland. It’s based on discussions with Philippe Besson last June. Here are screenshots of the interview.
...Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Citizens Assembly on the subject of abortion. Making Abortion Illegal is Not a Settled Moral Value – Our Laws Should Respect Individual Conscience Contents About Atheist Ireland We support repeal of the Eighth Amendment Abortion should...
At 2:30 pm today the secular schools alliance of Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland will address the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education about the Admission to Schools Bill. Pictured above with Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for...
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland met twice with Nils Muiznieks, Human Rights Commissioner with the Council of Europe, during his four-day visit to Ireland which ended today. During his visit, the Commissioner examined breaches of the...
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, attended a Council of Europe human rights round-table conference today in the Department of Foreign Affairs. At this conference, Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks called on civil society...
Atheist Ireland has now submitted our final recommendations to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) following our participation in the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw last week. This is the largest human rights conference in Europe, and Atheist Ireland attends...
Atheist Ireland has had one of our busiest and most productive weeks since we were founded. We spoke and lobbied at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the annual OSCE human rights meeting in Warsaw, Poland. We met with the...