Tags: Equality & Human Rights
Report highlights religious threat to global human rights
Posted: Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Blasphemy laws, supremacist ideologies, sectarianism, 'caste' systems and exclusionary laws are among the ways religion restricts human rights globally, according to a parliamentary group. Read More »
Catholic hospital discriminated against remarried doctor, ECJ rules
Posted: Tue, 18 Sep 2018
European religious employers' ability to dismiss employees for breaching religious laws may be restricted after a court ruling. Read More »
EHRC rebukes government over failure to act on caste discrimination
Posted: Sat, 28 Jul 2018
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticised the government's failure to legislate on caste discrimination. Read More »
Religious and secular groups launch EU freedom of belief campaign
Posted: Tue, 10 Jul 2018
An EU campaign developed by religious and non-religious groups promoting freedom of belief has been launched. Read More »
Christian groups coordinating anti-rights campaigns across Europe
Posted: Fri, 04 May 2018
An effort by Christian groups to restrict LGBT+ and women's rights across Europe has already had some success, a report has revealed. Read More »
Teacher sacked for saying gay child would go to hell loses in court
Posted: Tue, 03 Apr 2018
A tribunal has rejected claims of religious discrimination by a former teacher who was sacked after making anti-gay remarks to students. Read More »
Court rules C of E had right to block married gay man from NHS role
Posted: Thu, 22 Mar 2018
The NSS has called for religious hospital chaplaincy to end after a court accepted a bishop's right to block a gay man from an NHS role. Read More »
NSS welcomes Home Office decision not to regulate sharia ‘courts’
Posted: Thu, 01 Feb 2018
The NSS has welcomed the Home Office's rejection of proposals to regulate sharia 'courts', which were made in an official review today. Read More »
NSS working on numerous fronts to protect human rights post-Brexit
Posted: Thu, 23 Nov 2017
The NSS has warned that human rights in the UK - previously guaranteed under EU charters - are now under unprecedented threat. Read More »
Tribunal rejects ‘religious discrimination’ case against the NHS
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2017
A 'devout Christian' who was sacked as an NHS director after opposing same-sex adoption has lost his claim for religious discrimination. Read More »
LSE accepts gender-segregated event was unlawful
Posted: Fri, 29 Sep 2017
LSE has accepted that gender segregation at an Islamic Society dinner was unlawful after an NSS-backed complaint. Read More »
Girls forced to wear hijabs in English schools, NSS reveals
Posted: Sun, 24 Sep 2017
Girls in dozens of schools in England are forced to wear hijabs, according to National Secular Society research published in the Sunday Times today. Read More »
NSS asks Lords committee on citizenship to promote secular principles
Posted: Mon, 11 Sep 2017
The NSS has called on Britain to celebrate equality and respect for secular democracy, the rule of law and human rights. Read More »
NSS criticises Chinese crackdown on religious freedom
Posted: Thu, 31 Aug 2017
The National Secular Society has joined Amnesty International in condemning the Chinese government's crackdown on religious freedom. Read More »
DUP vows to resist calls to legalise abortion and same-sex marriage
Posted: Fri, 11 Aug 2017
DUP leader Arlene Foster has said her party will retain Northern Ireland's restrictions on abortion and same-sex marriage, despite growing pressure for reform. Read More »
Taxpayer-funded Catholic schools should only be for Catholics, says Archbishop of Liverpool
Posted: Thu, 04 May 2017
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon has said that Catholic schools "are different" and "for the Catholic community", despite their being funded by all taxpayers. Read More »
European Court of Justice: Employers can require staff to wear religiously neutral clothing
Posted: Tue, 14 Mar 2017
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has advised that employers can ask their staff to "dress neutrally" provided rules are consistent and apply to all religious symbols equally. Read More »
Freedom of Thought report highlights the right to freedom from religion
Posted: Tue, 06 Dec 2016
The Freedom of Thought report highlights cases of individuals who have been targeted for expressing non-religious views, for 'blasphemy' or for promoting secularism. Read More »
Major new equality report rejects opening the door to religious discrimination
Posted: Fri, 02 Dec 2016
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a major new report on religion and belief in the workplace, with recommendations which have been strongly welcomed by the National Secular Society. Read More »
Ashers Bakery loses appeal over cake with “Support Gay Marriage” slogan
Posted: Mon, 24 Oct 2016
A bakery firm which cancelled an order for a cake with the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" has lost its appeal against the ruling that they had unlawfully discriminated. Read More »
