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Posted: Thu, 12 Dec 2019
NSS: religion shouldn’t restrict access to abortion in NI
The NSS has urged the UK government not to allow religion to limit women's access to abortions in Northern Ireland.
Posted: Thu, 12 Dec 2019
NSS to address legacy of 1944 Education Act in lecture
The NSS is to consider the impact of the law which brought hundreds of faith schools into the state sector in a lecture in February.
Posted: Thu, 12 Dec 2019
NSS criticises BBC video promoting Operation Christmas Child
The NSS has said a BBC video on the Operation Christmas Child shoebox scheme acted as "propaganda for fundamentalist Christianity".
Posted: Tue, 03 Dec 2019
Jewish schools pressured parents to opt children out of sex ed
Parents have said two state-funded Jewish schools pressurised them to opt their children out of relationships and sex education.
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019
Don’t remove right to withdraw from RE, NSS urges Welsh ministers
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education.
Opinion
The General Medical Council has decided not to pursue a case against a GP who was accused of pushing religion on a vulnerable patient. Stephen Evans warns against allowing this exploitative behaviour.
Medical regulators shouldn’t let doctors push religion on patients
Posted: Tue, 10 Dec 2019
After two parents forced a school trust to provide an alternative to religious assemblies for their children, Alastair Lichten says the law which requires schools to hold acts of worship needs to change.
The requirement to hold collective worship in schools is crumbling and not worth saving
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Doctors in Britain should follow the lead of those who have declared ritual male circumcision a breach of medical ethics, argues Dr Antony Lempert.
The medical profession should protect all children from unnecessary genital cutting
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Megan Manson continues our election analysis of parties' policies on secularist issues. This time she examines the policies of the major parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Election 2019: Secularism and the parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Posted: Wed, 04 Dec 2019
Megan Manson studies the main UK-wide parties' election manifestos – and says religion will continue to be a dividing force in UK politics during the next parliament.
Election 2019: Where do the major parties stand on secularist issues?
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019