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15 December 2016

Atheist, Evangelical & Muslim alliance addresses Oireachtas Education Committee

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...

25 November 2016

Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner says Irish school patrons are holding State hostage

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...

25 November 2016

Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance Ireland and Ahmadiyya Muslims raise secular education at Council of Europe conference

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...

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20 November 2016

Atheist Ireland holds very productive AGM

Atheist Ireland held a very productive 2016 Annual General Meeting yesterday, after which we are prepared for another busy year promoting atheism, reason and ethical secularism. Pictured above is the Atheist Ireland Committee for 2017. Below are the three political reports to the AGM from...

9 October 2016

Atheist Ireland recommendations to OSCE on ending religious discrimination in Ireland

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...

8 October 2016

Polish government backs down from restricting abortion rights

The Polish government this week backed down from a controversial Bill to make abortion more restrictive, because of a wave of protests in Poland and internationally. In September, Atheist Ireland spoke against this Bill at a rally in Warsaw, when we were in Poland for...

2 October 2016

Atheist Ireland has busy week at UN in Geneva, OSCE in Warsaw, and in Ireland

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...

30 September 2016

Atheist Ireland rejects Holy See claims about Irish schools at OSCE

The Irish State has ceded control of most of our publicly funded schools to a Church that swaps at will between being a religion and being a foreign state. This foreign State claims internationally they are not responsible for the running of Catholic schools in...

30 September 2016

Atheist Ireland Statement on International Blasphemy Rights Day 2016

Today, on International Blasphemy Rights Day, the eleventh anniversary of the Danish Mohammad cartoons, Atheist Ireland calls for the urgent repeal of the Irish blasphemy law, and the release of all prisoners held around the world on blasphemy and related charges, of which we include...

28 September 2016

Solidarity between Irish and Polish abortion rights campaigns

The Irish and Polish abortion rights campaigns have been acting in solidarity in the past week. Today, pictured centre-left above, Nina Sankari of the KLF Polish atheist foundation spoke at a protest at the Irish Embassy in Poland in support of the Irish campaign to...