Sunday 10 August at the World Humanist Congress in Oxford kicked off with a political session, ‘Should Humanism Matter in Politics?’ This meeting was packed out with Congress delegates from around the world and was chaired by Labour Humanists’ Naomi Phillips. On the panel were Kerry McCarthy MP (Shadow Foreign Office Minister), Tom Copley …
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Should Humanism Matter in Politics?
August 31st, 2014 | Posted by in Events | News | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Labour’s equality statement to include non-religious people
August 15th, 2014 | Posted by in News - (0 Comments)We are pleased to announce that the recently-adopted equality statement of the Labour Party will now cover non-religious people (including atheists and humanists), having previously only referred to ‘religion’. Last month Labour’s policy making body – the National Policy Forum (NPF) – agreed an overarching equality statement as a commitment to the way it will implement …
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Over 1000 atheist, humanist and other non-religious organisations and activists from over 60 countries from the world gathered in the internationally renowned university city of Oxford for the World Humanist Congress, hosted by the British Humanist Association (BHA). This was the first time the Congress has been held in the United Kingdom since 1978 and was the the biggest Congress in …
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Labour’s new equality statement does not include non-religious people
July 28th, 2014 | Posted by in News - (0 Comments)We have written to representatives at Labour’s policy making body – the National Policy Forum – to raise our concern about the overarching equality statement it recently adopted as a commitment to the way it will implement policies and its manifesto. As it stands, the equality statement appears not to cover non-religious people – atheists and …
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The British Humanist Association (BHA) celebrated its most successful year so far at its AGM. Read all about it here. Labour Humanists works closely with the BHA team and we could not achieve nearly as much without their support on faith schools, on events, on equalities – in fact across all our work. We look …
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Save the date: No Prayer Breakfast at Labour Conference
June 29th, 2014 | Posted by in Blog | Events | News - (0 Comments)We are delighted to announce that, jointly with the British Humanist Association (BHA), we will be holding our ‘No Prayer Breakfast’ fringe meeting at Labour Conference. 8am Tuesday 23 September, Hilton Hotel, Manchester. The venue is just outside the secure zone which means that it is accessible to people not attending conference this year too. …
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Earlier this week, represented by Tom Copley AM, we met with Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt. We were pleased to attend that meeting alongside the British Humanist Association (BHA) and the Accord Coalition, to speak about our shared vision for a high quality and inclusive education and schools system. We had a productive meeting …
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Getting humanist voices heard within Labour
June 7th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Last year, Labour Party Chair and Labour Humanists Patron Angela Eagle implored us to make our voices heard within the Party, if we want to see real changes to policy. We’ve been doing lots of work to represent the views of our members both behind the scenes and through open activism. Over the past few months …
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Take Action! Making Labour’s policies more equal, ethical and secular
May 25th, 2014 | Posted by in News - (0 Comments)Labour’s ‘Final year policy consultation documents’ – response and suggested amendments from Labour Humanists *We have now submitted these amendments to Labour’s Your Britain policy review website. Members can view, comment and vote in support of these papers on education, communities, politics and Britain’s global role* Following a review of its core policies, Labour has …
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