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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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Half of women in the UK believe their health is treated as second-class by the NHS. But this isn’t just costing them; it’s costing our economy. New polling commissioned by the Create Health Foundation shows that millions of women are being failed by our health service, leading to missed work and billions in losses for… Read more »
A million people are estimated to have been displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon since Israel’s air strikes began against Hezbollah. These include many Syrian refugees who had previously fled to Lebanon to escape civil war. And Iran’s missile attacks in retaliation is in turn forcing Israelis living near the border to flee to… Read more »
