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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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The Home Office Minister has said the Government is working to ensure that the stop and search system is fair. Her comments come after the latest stop and search figures show a 36 per cent rise in the number of Asian people targeted. Since the start of the War on Terror, the number of Asian… Read more »
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has told MPs that the public need convincing about the benefits of community sentencing. Giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Lord Woolf said that non-violent crime normally warrants a community sentence rather than jail. Prison must be used in an effective way, he said, adding… Read more »
