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Decriminalise abortion now
A dangerous precedent is being set in the US right now, as women’s healthcare is under enormous threat. Protect legal abortions in the UK!
We want to protect legal abortions in England and Wales for all time by taking abortion out of the criminal code, where it sits now, and establish that the right of a woman to control her body is a basic human right that should be recognised explicitly in law.
Abortion shouldn’t be a crime.
Get bishops out of the Lords
Bishops’ automatic seats in the House of Lords are undemocratic and a threat to a tolerant and diverse UK – get them out now!
The UK is alone among democratic sovereign states in having clerics vote on our laws.
The time is well and truly here to insist that bishops are removed from the House of Lords. Religious privilege in Parliament needs to end NOW.
Add your name and demand reform in the Lords.
End school selection discrimination
A third of state schools in the UK are faith schools. They can and do select children based on their family’s religious beliefs.
This must end.
We are a community standing up for a UK that doesn’t discriminate because of religion. Together, we’re calling for a COMPLETE and immediate end to this cruel selection process.
Are you with us?
Ban conversion therapy
Exorcisms belong in the history books. But the Government STILL hasn’t banned conversion therapy against LGBT people. Add your name to demand an end to these horrific ‘therapies’.
No one should be demonised just for being themselves. But in 2024, many people, including young people, are *still* being forced into traumatic conversion ‘therapies’ in the name of religion.
Add your name if you agree that dangerous conversion ‘therapies’ have no place in a modern UK
End non-stun slaughter
Religious loopholes mean that farm animals are caused enormous pain and suffering when they are slaughtered without stunning.
Non-stun methods, often justified on religious grounds, can cause prolonged distress and pain, contravening modern ethical standards.
Respect for religious customs should NOT take precedence over animal welfare.
Sign our petition to demand an end to non-stun slaughter.
Replace parliamentary prayers
Did you know each session of Parliament starts with prayers? And did you know that, due to limited seats, this means that non-Christian MPs and peers find it more difficult to speak in Parliament’s busiest and most important debates?
We’re calling for Parliament to review this and introduce an inclusive model of time for reflection, which works well in the Scottish Parliament.
Please will you sign our petition for a modern Parliament?
End faith schools
At schools around the UK, children have become an unwitting audience for evangelists, peddling creationism, homophobia, and anti-abortion ideologies to their young minds
Non-religious (and non-Christian) children are being subjected to Christian evangelism in schools because the church and faith institutions play a strong role in our education system. We don’t think it should!
And this is just a part of what’s happening in faith schools today.
Repeal NI blasphemy laws
Northern Ireland will soon be the last part of the UK or Ireland to have a blasphemy law in statute. These laws are used around the world to suppress free expression and persecute political and religious minorities. We want to see them urgently repealed.
Urge your MLA today for a repeal of Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws.
End compulsory worship
Did you know the UK is the only country in the world to impose Christian worship in state schools? Current law in England and Wales requires all state-funded schools to conduct daily acts of ‘worship’ of a ‘Christian character’. We’re calling on the Government to replace compulsory worship with inclusive assemblies for all.
Sign our petition and back inclusive assemblies for all.
Recognise humanist marriage
Humanist marriages are now more popular than Christian weddings in Scotland, where they have been legally recognised since 2005.
Humanist weddings are also legally recognised in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey. So why not in England and Wales?
A whole decade on from Parliament voting in a new category of marriage, so the government can change the law to include humanist marriage, they haven’t started to implement it.
Add your name to demand change, now!
Support humanist marriages
Humanist marriages are legally recognised in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but humanist couples in England and Wales face discrimination and are forced to have a separate civil marriage.
We want the UK Government to end the inequality faced by humanists by bringing the law in line with Scotland and Northern Ireland, giving legal recognition to humanist marriages in England and Wales.
Write to your MP to end humanist marriage inequality.
Implement buffer zones
Recent news articles have highlighted the alarming increase in harassment outside abortion clinics. It is essential that women no longer have to suffer this harmful behaviour.
We are calling upon the UK Government to take immediate action by implementing safe access zones around these clinics to ensure the safety, privacy, and dignity of women seeking these essential healthcare services.
End religious advantage in our institutions
In 2024, religion is still influencing all aspects of public life.
Religious figures get a say in UK laws. All too often, religious chaplains are the only option for pastoral care in NHS hospitals. And prayers are mandatory in the schools that shape young minds.
At Humanists UK, we’re pushing for a UK that represents the non-religious majority – but it will take everyone speaking out to help win the change we need.
Do good without believing in a god
At Humanists UK, we bring together thousands of people who share this outlook on life to influence public debate and policy, to support our human rights and democracy, and to fight for equal dignity and treatment of everyone – whatever their views or beliefs.
If you agree that morality doesn’t have a religion, you might be a humanist. Add your name to join a movement that believes in equality and justice for all.
Free Mubarak Bala now!
Mubarak remains in prison in Nigeria, because of unjust and inhumane blasphemy laws there. He has been treated atrociously, and denied access to lawyers, family and legal counsel for extended periods of time.
His imprisonment is a violation of freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief.
Please write to your MP today, to ask them to call for his immediate and unconditional release.
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