A campaign for secular education
United Nations Convention on Elimination of Racism
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, have made the following joint submission to Irish State's review process of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Religious Discrimination. We are focusing on the intersectionality of religious and racial discrimination in the Irish ...
Yesterday the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn published a draft Admission to Schools bill to regulate the admission of children to primary and post primary schools. While the proposed measures in the bill are to be welcomed the Minister has done nothing about removing religious discrimination in access to education. ...
Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: a failure to protect human rights? The above link is to a paper called ; Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: A failure to protect human rights? The research is by Dr. Alison Mawhinney, Lecturer in Law, School ...
In 2005 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raised concern with the Irish State regarding the Admission policies in National schools. Section 7 3 (c) of the Equal Status Act permits schools with a religious ethos to give preference to co-religionists in the event of a shortage ...
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination (CERD) will be monitoring Ireland's record on this issue at meetings from 14 February to 11 March. The CERD sees a link between racial and religious discrimination. In its last report on Ireland, in 2005, the CERD asked Ireland ...
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