Consultation Responses & Letters
A significant part of our output, largely hidden from view, is our submissions to Government or international bodies' consulatations. A selection of these submissions can be found below.
Community Cohesion and Migration: Submission by the NSS to the Communities and Local Government Committee.
Submission dated Jan 2008
Published July 16 2008.
Submission by the
International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)
Jointly with the (UK) National Secular Society to the United Nations Commission for Human Rights on the implementation of ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’ resolution of 27 March 2008.
Submission dated 2 June 2008
Council of Europe - 118th Session of the Committee of Ministers
White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue Living Together As Equals in Dignity
Strasbourg, 7 May 2008
This document identifies references made in the above White Paper to the non-religious or secular perspectives, thought to have been positively influenced by NSS/IHEU input.
Response by the National Secular Society to the Department of Communities and Local Government’s consultation Face-to-Face and Side-by-Side:
A framework for inter faith dialogue and social action.
Submitted 12 March 2008
NSS submission to Welsh Assembly inquiry into presumed consent for organ donation
A letter to Ed Balls concerning the operation of admissions code in schools at local authority level.
Is there any scope for a peaceful co-existence between religion and homosexuality?
European Parliament in Strasbourg – 14 November 2007
A joint response from the National Secular Society and the Secular Medical Forum, submitted September 21st, 2007.
The NSS response focuses on making a distinction between religion and race, and defending freedom of expression
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Guardian, 21 August 2008
Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008
Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.