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August 3, 2014 1 Comment admin

Children have a human right to a neutral studying environment, even in denominational schools

Children have right to non-religious schooling - UN Human Rights Committee Last month Ireland appeared before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR). Every five years the UN questions Ireland in relation to their human rights obligations under the Covenant. ...

August 3, 2014 3 Comments admin

Educate Together is undermining the duty of the Irish State to provide non-denominational schools

Educate Together multi-denominational schools don't relieve Irish State of UN Human Rights Committee duty to secular education Educate Together has made two statements recently that undermine the duty of the Irish Government to provide secular education though new non-denominational schools, as required by the UN Human Rights Committee. Educate Together is ...

August 3, 2014 No Comments admin

The new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission should be mandated to monitor ICCPR rights

United Nations Human Rights Committee challenges Ireland's record on monitoring Human Rights and Equality This is Yuval Shany of the UN Human Rights Committee, during the Committee's questioning of Ireland in Geneva in July. He is challenging the Irish State's reasons for not mandating the new Irish Human Rights and ...

July 24, 2014 1 Comment Michael Nugent

UN Human Rights Committee tells Ireland to stop breaching the human rights of atheists and minority faiths

Ireland breaches human rights in education, employment, religious oaths and blasphemy law - UN HCR The UN Human Rights Committee today told Ireland to stop breaching the human rights of atheists and minority faiths in the education system, employment, religious oaths and blasphemy law. The UN report published today vindicates ...

July 20, 2014 No Comments admin

Irish government again defers to the “institutionalised belief system” that pervades Irish schools.

"Is Irish State required to provide neutral teaching environment outside religion classes" - asks UN Human Rights Committee Last Monday the UN Human Rights Committee asked Ireland, "with regard to denominational schools, does the State believe it is required to ensure a neutral teaching environment outside of the religious instruction ...

July 18, 2014 No Comments admin

Irish Government again evades UN questions on oaths, blasphemy and religious discrimination in Irish schools

'No change on religious discrimination, oaths, blasphemy' - Irish government response to UN The UN Human Rights Committee has just published the Irish Government's written response to the questions that they were asked in Geneva this week. The Government gave no additional information on religious oaths or blasphemy, and it ...

July 6, 2014 1 Comment Jane Donnelly

Article 18 (Freedom of Conscience) protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion of belief.

Irish schools' religious curriculum "raises concerns" on human rights Article 18 - UN HCR On 14th July Ireland is due before the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. This UN Committee will ask the State what it is doing to protect the rights ...

July 2, 2014 2 Comments Jane Donnelly

Irish Human Rights Commission recommends change to the Education Act 1998 to protect the rights of minorities.

Education Act needs change on religious discrimination of minority faith & non-faith children - Irish Human Rights Commission The Irish Human Rights Commission in their Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee have recommended that Section 15 of the Education Act 1998 be amended to provide for modifications to the ...

July 1, 2014 No Comments Jane Donnelly

Atheist Ireland to brief UN Human Rights Committee about Ireland’s failure to protect rights of Atheists and Secularists

Irish Education, Denominational Schools, Religious Oaths, Blasphemy enshine religious discrimination & are not equality before the law - submission to UN HCR This July Ireland will be examined by the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. By ratifying this UN Treaty Ireland has guaranteed ...

May 1, 2014 No Comments Jane Donnelly

‘Parental Choice’ in education is a euphemism for religious segregation

Catholic schools - pluralism and parental choice or religious denominational segregation? In a speech yesterday the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said that pluralism is something we should welcome. He said that, “The Catholic children of the Ireland of the future will live in a climate of pluralism and must ...