Posted: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 by Dr Marika McAdam
Proponents of ritual genital cutting often claim a 'right' to religious freedom justifies their position. But individuals have rights, says Dr Marika McAdam – and for boys, they include the right to autonomy over their own foreskins.
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Posted: Tue, 03 Dec 2019
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
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
A high court judge's ruling will prevent mainly Muslim protesters from rallying against inclusive education outside a Birmingham school.....
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
The NSS has referred 10 Christadelphian charities to the Charity Commission over concerns that they promote deeply intolerant messages.
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Inspectors have found an independent Islamic school segregating children by sex, two years after the practice was ruled unlawful.
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....
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.
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.
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.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
Politicians need to end their fetishisation of faith schools and face the fact that a religiously divided education system is unfit for the future, argues Stephen Evans.
Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019