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A selection of referenced reports and briefings covering issues on which we campaign.
Consultation Responses and Submissions
Read our submissions and consultation responses. These contain plenty of facts, statistics and ideas that you may find helpful in your own discussions and debates.
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A collection of interviews, speeches, reports and other documents from the NSS
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If you’d like support for original research into secularism, let us know.
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Posted: Thu, 18 Apr 2019
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Jewish charity trustees accused of money laundering
The NSS has called for scrutiny into charities in insular religious communities following alleged money laundering involving Jewish charities....
Posted: Mon, 15 Apr 2019
NSS refers Islamic charities promoting extremism to regulator
Islamic charities have linked to content endorsing marital rape and execution for homosexuality and 'apostasy', the NSS has found.
Posted: Mon, 15 Apr 2019
NSS signs major letter against new fully selective faith schools
Public figures and campaigners including the NSS have urged the government not to fund a new wave of religiously selective faith schools....
Posted: Fri, 12 Apr 2019
Government recommends crematoria be for “all faiths and none”
Government guidance has said crematoria should accommodate the needs of people of "all faiths and none", following NSS recommendations.
Posted: Fri, 12 Apr 2019
Britain’s non-religious population growing rapidly, figures show
The number of people who say they are non-religious in Great Britain has risen by 46% in seven years, according to official figures.
Related Opinion
As a regulator issues patronising advice to advertisers in the run-up to Easter, Chris Sloggett takes a look at its guidance on religious offence – and finds a deep and damaging aversion to freedom...
The advertising regulator is pandering to religious offence-taking
Posted: Thu, 04 Apr 2019
The Jehovah's Witnesses organisation causes serious abuse and harm, says Lloyd Evans. Its charitable status should be revoked – and society should stop assuming religious organisations only have...
The harm caused by Jehovah’s Witnesses shows charity law reform is urgently needed
Posted: Tue, 26 Mar 2019
An NSS report says 'the advancement of religion' should be removed as a charitable purpose. Stephen Evans says the law should align with public opinion and only support charities that deliver a genuine...
Religion and public benefit – why it’s time to rethink charity law
Posted: Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Politicians who insist female genital cutting has nothing to do with religion set a dangerous precedent that undermines campaigns to combat it and other religious harms, says Megan Manson.
Let’s face facts: FGM has something to do with religion
Posted: Thu, 14 Mar 2019
As protesters demand the end of Sudan's Islamist regime, Nahla Mahmoud says a secular democracy is the only way to protect the rights of the Sudanese people.
Sudan deserves a secular democracy
Posted: Wed, 06 Mar 2019