UK Government announces details of upcoming review into marriage laws in England and Wales, which will see fast-track legal recognition of civil marriages taking place in outdoor venues.
UK Government announces details of upcoming review into marriage laws in England and Wales, which will see fast-track legal recognition of civil marriages taking place in outdoor venues.
Ireland’s vote to remove blasphemy from its constitution is a resounding success for free speech, says Humanists UK. Irish citizens voted resoundingly at a referendum on Saturday, October 27 to remove the clause from the constitution.
New research shows that 71% of people in Britain aged between 18 and 24 are non-religious, as are 53% of the population overall and 58% in Scotland. These results are from the latest British Social Attitudes Survey, which recently released extended data on religion or belief in Britain yesterday.
The 34th annual British Social Attitudes Survey shows that non-religious people represent a clear majority of British people in 2017. This accounts for 53% of the general population, a new high for the non-religious population, which was previously estimated at 51% in 2014.
The court of appeal in Belfast rules that reform of abortion law in Northern Ireland should be left to the Northern Ireland Assembly, and not decided by the courts. In 2015 the High Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws violate the rights of women to a private life under European human rights law. The ruling involved women and girls who were denied abortions in Northern Ireland either in cases of fatal foetal abnormality or despite their pregnancies being the result of sexual crimes.
The first ever legal humanist wedding ceremony took place in Northern Ireland on Thursday, July 22. Following a lengthy legal battle to secure recognition, Laura Lacole and Eunan O’Kane wed in a beautiful ceremony surrounded by friends and family and conducted by Humanists UK celebrant Isabel Russo.
