These are the speakers on the panel discussion on Women’s Resistance, the Veil and Religious Morality, from 10:25-11:55 this Sunday 23 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There are eight panel discussions over the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking at two of them on […]
These are the individual speakers and events this Sunday 23 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There will also be eight panel discussions during the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking on behalf of Atheist Ireland on two of these panels. Use the hashtag #IWant2BFree this […]
These are the speakers on the panel discussion on Secularism as a Human Right, from 16:45-18:15 this Saturday 22 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There are eight panel discussions over the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking at two of them on behalf of […]
These are the speakers on the panel discussion on Religion in the Law and State, from 14:30-16:00 this Saturday 22 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There are eight panel discussions over the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking at two of them on behalf […]
These are the speakers on the panel discussion on Blasphemy, Islamophobia, Freedom of Thought and Expression, from 12:00-13:30 this Saturday 22 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There are eight panel discussions over the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking at two of them on […]
These are the speakers on the panel discussion on Islam’s Non-Believers, from 10:30-11:30 this Saturday 22 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There are eight panel discussions over the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking at two of them on behalf of Atheist Ireland. Use […]
These are the individual speakers and events this Saturday 22 July, at the Glastonbury of Freethinkers, London’s International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience. There will also be eight panel discussions during the weekend. Jane Donnelly and I will be speaking on behalf of Atheist Ireland on two of these panels. Use the hashtag #IWant2BFree this […]
This week in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Committee questioned Pakistan on its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Before this, the Committee was briefed by six NGOs, including a unique joint delegation from Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland. […]
In the coming week, Irish Atheists, Evangelicals and Ahmadi Muslims will be jointly challenging human rights abuses in Pakistan, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. We will be speaking out for persecuted religious and nonreligious minorities living in Pakistan, who are afraid to speak out themselves. On Monday July 10th, we will formally address […]
Minister Bruton’s new proposal on schools admissions is an unjust fine-tuning of an already unjust religious discrimination. He is proposing to stop Catholic schools refusing to admit children on the basis of religion, but minority faith primary schools will be allowed to continue doing this. But there is a basic principle at stake here, which […]