by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called on the government to support the new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which calls for children to be given the right to withdraw from worship in schools. The report says that any child of...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
School students will soon be able to study humanism as part of a Religious Studies GCSE under new proposals from the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations board (OCR). A Philosophy and Ethics element will allow the study of topics, like God, and issues, such as...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 4, 2008
A potentially landmark faith schools court case for alleged racial discrimination is now underway, involving the JFS (formally the Jewish Free School). It is being brought by parents whose child was denied a place at the school. The admissions criteria used by the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 2, 2008
Two leading organisations speaking for the concerns of non-religious people in the UK have challenged a major youth organisation over its exclusion of non-believers, in spite of its repeated claims to be open and inclusive. Following a meeting at the Scout...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
An MP will this week seek to bring an end to Britain’s controversial blasphemy laws – as a broad cross-section of believers, humanists and civil rights campaigners continue to argue that they are unnecessary, repressive and outdated. Today British Humanist...