The BHA is pleased to announce that we have been accepted on to the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights is a body of the European Union (EU). It helps ensure that the EU and national governments respect people’s fundamental rights by collecting evidence about the situation of fundamental rights across the EU and providing advice, based on the evidence, about how to improve this situation.
Organisations are involved with the FRA’s research and awareness raising projects right from attending inception meetings to the evaluation stage. They are invited to help shape the terms of reference of a project and assist in ensuring that the Agency’s work contributes to finding practical solutions to problems on the ground. Some FRP members also act as researchers or external contractors.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, said, ‘We are very pleased to be a part of this incredibly important work. Human rights are fundamental to all the work of the BHA and we are delighted to be a part of this platform which informs EU member states about their human rights obligations, as well as educates people as to what their rights are. Our appointment onto the platform means that we can raise the voice of non-religious people in human rights discourse and this can only increase and improve work in this area.’
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The British Humanist Association (BHA) is the national charity representing and supporting the non-religious and campaigning for an end to religious privilege and to discrimination based on religion or belief. It is the largest organisation in the UK working for a secular state.