A campaign for secular education
ERB and Ethics: do we now need to opt our children out of this new subject?
The introduction of a new course in Primary Schools about Religions, Beliefs and Ethics has the potential to undermine further the Constitutional and Human Rights of minorities. The legal framework is not in place that would ensure that the course is delivered in accordance with human rights so that the ...
The Catholic Church reaction to what seems to be a leaked NCCA report on Education about Religion, Beliefs and Ethics further confirms the analysis that Atheist Ireland has consistently made in recent years. We will again raise the need to amend the Education Act 1998 when Jane Donnelly addresses the ...
This has been a very positive week for Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland. We met with Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, and we attended a Council of Europe Human Rights Conference at which Commissioner Muiznieks was ...
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 human rights of women, children, ...
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 organisations to work alongside Council ...
Today a unique secular alliance met Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, to discuss children’s rights in Irish publicly funded national schools. Jane Donnelly told Commissioner Muižnieks that she was proud to speak on behalf of Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of ...
The Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill went through the second stage in the Dail yesterday. This Bill will not remove religious discrimination in our Education system. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Ombudsman for Children have both recommended that religious discrimination be removed from our education system ...
The Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016 will begin its second stage in the Dail this week. Please lobby your TDs and ask them to amend this Bill to remove religious discrimination in the education system. It is important to amend the Bill to remove religious discrimination in access to schools, but that ...
The Patronage system has reduced education to a competition for parental preference. It manufactures consent on the basis of a limited choice. Parents and their children are faced with a choice between a limited number of Patron bodies, and these Patron bodies have control over the application of their human ...
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