A campaign for secular education
Human Rights violations in the Irish Education System
The Irish education system discriminates against minorities and undermines human rights. The 1995 Constitutional review Group said Article 44.2.4 of the Irish Constitution, which sanctions state funding of denominational schools, was also meant to protect the rights of minorities. The United Nations and Council of Europe have made eight Recommendations ...
Atheist Ireland has produced a report that explains how Irish school teachers must be Catholic missionaries. The vast majority of publicly funded schools in Ireland are controlled by the Catholic Church, and if you want to get a job as a teacher you have to: (a) have a Catholic Certificate in ...
The Irish Government is proposing a Bill to protect LGBT teachers, while allowing discrimination against atheist and minority faith teachers. Atheist Ireland is campaigning to change this Bill so that it protects all teachers equally. This is a rare opportunity to change an unjust law and promote equality. here's how you ...
Atheist Ireland has made a report to the Council of Europe about the Louise O'Keeffe judgment last year in the European Court of Human Rights, a ruling that has implications for all of the human rights that are breached by religiously-run national schools in Ireland. We are asking the Council ...
After today’s Seanad debate, the Bill to protect teachers from religious discrimination in schools will still not protect atheist or religious minority teachers at all, including Protestant or Muslim teachers, who cannot access the teaching profession in Ireland. Atheist Ireland will be conducting an intensive lobbying campaign about this between ...
Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan said yesterday that she was particularly motivated to protect LGBT teachers from discrimination, when some LGBT teachers were afraid to have their photographs taken with the President for fear that action would be taken against them in their schools. But last February, at a meeting with ...
The Labour Party seems to have forgotten the pledge in the Programme for Government to protect non-faith and minority faith teachers along with publicly out LGBT teachers, despite the Labour Party claiming political ownership of that particular Government commitment. A Labour Party press release today is now selectively recasting it ...
Five TDs, including three Party Leaders, yesterday asked the Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dail to report on his recent meeting with Atheist Ireland - Socialists and independents Ruth Coppinger, Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd Barrett; Micheal Martin of Fianna Fail; and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein. Here are the ...
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