Humanists UK
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We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
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Joined June 2009
Please, donate today so we can continue to fund a dedicated campaigner working to end faith schools, shut illegal schools, abolish compulsory collective worship, and reform RE to make it objective, fair, and balanced in every school. https://t.co/xtIQi389v6 👇
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There are 6,000 children trapped in illegal schools in England – many hidden behind claims of ‘part-time’ education. In reality, they’re confined to cramped rooms, forced to study scripture for hours each day. Donate to #EveryChildEveryChance and help us ban illegal faith
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Do you support calling Congress back into session to have a vote on releasing the Epstein files?
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Your support will expose illegal, unsafe schools, challenge discriminatory faith-based admissions; end compulsory worship, and push for a balanced curriculum that teaches both humanist and religious perspectives grounded in evidence, not ideology. Donate today.
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State-funded faith schools can turn children away because their families are the ‘wrong’ religion – or have no religion at all. That’s not right. Your donation will help end this discrimination and build an education system that’s fair for every child. 🧵
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‘Faith-based discrimination in education should have no place in our diverse country. Through #EveryChildEveryChance, we’re standing up for children’s rights to learn freely and think for themselves. We hope our supporters will join us in making that vision a reality.’
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Our campaign fights for fairness in education by: • Exposing illegal schools • Challenging faith-based admissions • Ending compulsory worship • Pushing for inclusive curriculum reform so every child can learn freely and think for themselves. https://t.co/6hQsumKFkE
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Newly released Ofsted figures reveal that the number of suspected illegal schools investigated reached a record high in the last year. The watchdog’s Unregistered Schools Team – established in 2016...
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We've launched #EveryChildEveryChance – our 2025 Faith Schools Fundraiser – aiming to raise £40,000 to build a fairer, more inclusive education system. Every donation made in Oct will be doubled up to £7k by generous supporters. Please, donate today. https://t.co/xtIQi389v6
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Across the UK, thousands of children are denied the fair education every child deserves – shut out of local schools because their families are the ‘wrong’ faith, or hidden away in illegal ones with no real lessons at all. #EveryChildEveryChance 🧵 https://t.co/Y7nwbJCgoJ
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Humanists UK has launched its 2025 Faith Schools Fundraiser, ‘Every Child, Every Chance’, aiming to raise £40,000 on JustGiving to support its ongoing campaign for a fair, inclusive, and non-discri...
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Discover India's rich humanist heritage - from ancient Charvaka philosophy to modern secular ideals. Join our expert panel exploring this fascinating history on 16 October online.
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Division weakens us all. A fair, inclusive, and equal society strengthens us – and it’s something worth defending together. The Guardian has also published a piece referencing our letter. https://t.co/0yxBoq89ZC
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Our joint letter warns that the far right’s growing influence is harming people of all backgrounds – spreading fear, scapegoating minorities, and undermining the rule of law. Read full letter on the @EquallyOurs website.
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Thank you to all the amazing charities who came together to stand up for inclusion, equality and racial justice in our joint letter of 29 September to the Prime Minister. You can read the letter...
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We’ve joined @EquallyOurs and others in urging the UK Government to take a clear stand against the far right’s deliberate attempts to sow division and hostility between communities – and to reaffirm our shared values of inclusion, equality, and anti-racism.
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Discover India's rich #HumanistHeritage – from ancient Charvaka philosophy to modern secular ideals. Join our expert panel exploring this fascinating history on 16 October online. Book now.
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An excellent and necessary reminder of what genuine liberal democracy means. Freedom of expression is not designed to protect the comfortable. It exists precisely to protect the controversial, the dissenting, and the irreverent. A mature society does not criminalise offence, it
From today's very welcome judgment: 'There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously
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From today's very welcome judgment: 'There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously
BREAKING: A man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in London has had his conviction for religiously motivated harassment, alarm, or distress overturned on appeal by Southwark Crown Court. A huge victory for free speech and a blow against the revival of blasphemy laws.
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The group describes itself as a ‘spiritual army’ opposed to ‘sin and cultural decay’, and ‘a coalition of Christians… who believe it’s time for the Church to stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers’.
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A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs,...
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Christian Nationalists from the so-called 'King's Army' took to the streets of London's Soho to intimidate LGBT+ people. A clear sign of growing Christian Nationalist extremism in the United Kingdom.
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When handing down his judgment today, the judge affirmed that the burning of a Quran is not a crime in and of itself as there is no actual victim of hostility on a racial or religious basis. In this case, Coskun’s conduct was found not to be aimed at a specific person or
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Further, after Coskun burned the Quran he was stabbed by a man who took offence to his actions. The criminal behaviour of that man was found not to make Coskun’s actions criminal.
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