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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?
Ban hitting children NOW
The UK Government has said they won’t consider banning hitting, smacking, or beating children in England until at least 2026. This isn’t good enough.
The Government claims to be waiting for a report from Wales, but there is already overwhelming international evidence that physical punishment harms children and offers no benefits.
Children deserve the same legal protection from violence as adults. Why is England still allowing physical punishment?
Add your name to call for action NOW
End mandatory collective worship in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, schools are still legally required to hold daily acts of collective Christian worship – even in schools where the majority of pupils are not religious. This is outdated, unfair, and discriminatory.
We believe in freedom of religion and belief.
Parents and children should have the right to a school experience that is inclusive and respectful of all beliefs.
Add your name if you AGREE that worship should be a personal choice, not a legal requirement!
Stand up for free speech
Free speech is a fundamental right. The ability to tell jokes, discuss ideas, and criticise religions is a core part of a democratic society.
Yet in the UK, we are seeing an increasing number of heavy-handed police responses to so-called ‘offences’.
We must defend free speech – at home and abroad.
Sign now if you AGREE that free speech must be protected!!
Let humanists speak on Thought for the Day
Why is the BBC excluding non-religious voices from Thought for the Day (Radio 4) and Pause for Thought (Radio 2)?
The UK is a majority non-religious country, yet the BBC refuses to give non-religious perspectives a platform.
This is blatant discrimination. The BBC is funded by all licence fee payers – not just the religious ones.
Add your name and insist that the BBC end its religious bias!
Stop creationism being taught in science lessons in Wales
The Welsh Government refuses to ban the teaching of creationism as fact in schools. This is unacceptable.
Creationism is NOT science. Schools shouldn’t be teaching it as literally true.
The government in England banned creationism from being taught in science classes over a decade ago. But the Welsh Government has yet to respond to a campaign from the UK’s top scientists to officially ban it.
Add your name if you AGREE that schools must teach real science, not fairytales.
Stop funding fake medicine on the NHS
At a time when NHS funding is under extreme pressure, not a single penny should be spent on fake medicine, psychic woo woo, or ‘magical’ quackery.
Shockingly, many NHS trusts continue to advertise jobs for ‘reiki practitioners’ – people who claim they can cure real diseases by waving their hands to manipulate invisible psychic energy.
This is a waste of resources. Every pound spent on ineffective holistic therapies is a pound that could be used elsewhere.
Sign now if you want NHS money to go to real medicine, not pseudoscience
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!
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