UN tells Ireland to remove all religious discrimination in schools
Atheist Ireland welcomes today’s concluding observations about Ireland from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. We were in Geneva last month when the Committee questioned Ireland, and the Committee has made all of the recommendations we asked for. The UN has told Ireland to remove all ...
UN asks Ireland about children’s rights including secular education
This week Atheist Ireland was in Geneva for the examination of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Atheist Ireland, along with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, made a Submission to the UN Committee in relation to religious discrimination in the education system ...
United Nations is asking Ireland about the right to an alternative to religion class in schools
Atheist Ireland will be attending the 92nd session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva later this month. This UN Committee will be questioning Ireland, and we have made a joint submission with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland. You can find ...
Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance, and Ahmadi Muslims update the UN on rights of children
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, made a joint submission to the UN Children's Rights Committee as it prepares to question Ireland next January. You can read that submission here. We also met with the UN Committee last week in Geneva, along ...
Atheist Ireland lobbying at the United Nations for the rights of children in Irish schools
Atheist Ireland was at the United Nations in Geneva this week lobbying for the rights of children in Irish schools that discriminate on the ground of religion. We also represented the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, with whom we made a joint submission to the ...
UN to question Ireland on the rights of children in Irish schools
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its List of Issues for when it next questions Ireland. Atheist Ireland made a joint submission to this process, along with the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland. The UN Committee has now asked the Irish State ...
Schools Admission Bill will institutionalise religious discrimination
The proposed new Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill 2016 will not remove religious discrimination from our education system and protect human rights. Despite the requirement that the Admissions policies of schools will be obliged to include a statement that they shall not discriminate on religion, publicly funded National schools can ...
Irish children denied right to sexual and reproductive health education
In Ireland Children and Adolescents are denied their right to sexual and reproductive health education. You can do something about this by supporting the Recommendation of the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission on the Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill. This Bill will be coming up in the Oireachtas again ...
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 Ireland, while at the same time ...
Atheist Ireland in Geneva this week at UN hearing on rights of the child
This Thursday, in Geneva, Atheist Ireland will be advocating for children in Irish schools, as the UN questions Ireland about its human rights record under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is our sixth year raising religious discrimination in Ireland with the UN, Council of Europe and OSCE. ...