Posted: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 by Pragna Patel
The state's adoption of 'faith based' approaches to address minority issues are increasingly marginalising women from minority backgrounds and denying them the right to participate in the wider political community as equal citizens, argues Pragna Patel.
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Posted: Wed, 19 Jan 2022
Politicians around the world are using religion to restrict reproductive rights, a recent report has found.
Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2022
Religious education promotes religiosity but not broadly shared moral and political values, research suggests.
Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2022
The National Secular Society has welcomed plans to allow all types of weddings to be held outdoors indefinitely.
Posted: Thu, 13 Jan 2022
The National Secular Society has questioned a school adjudicator's dismissal of complaints that a faith school's dress code is sexist.
Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Two people and a charity who wanted to operate "under the radar" have pleaded guilty to running an illegal unregistered faith school.
Faith-based selection forces families' religiosity to be assessed, compels conformity, and undermines everyone's freedom of belief, says Alastair Lichten.
Posted: Tue, 04 Jan 2022
NSS chief executive Stephen Evans reflects on how secularism fared in 2021 and the NSS's activities over the year.
Posted: Wed, 22 Dec 2021
Evangelical activists' insistence that equality amounts to discrimination is a narcissistic approach to human rights, argues Stephen Evans.
Posted: Fri, 17 Dec 2021
We need to tackle anti-Muslim hate, but the politicised and problematic term of Islamophobia should be ditched, argues Nova Daban.
Posted: Tue, 30 Nov 2021
A recent report on state-sanctioned killings of 'blasphemers' and 'apostates' suggests re-interpreting Islam as a solution rather than promoting universal human rights. Megan Manson argues this is the...
Posted: Mon, 22 Nov 2021