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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 trade unions have today given their support to a new bill that would restore to them all the rights to strike and organise that Margaret Thatcher took away. The TUC in Brighton passed a motion backing the trade union freedom bill, which has the support of 182 MPs but has yet to be presented… Read more »
The government’s determination to clamp down on failed asylum seekers staying in the UK means thousands of illegal workers are being ignored, it has been claimed. John Tincey, the vice chairman of the Immigration Service union (ISU), said that staff had even been penalised for spending too much time looking for illegal workers. “This has… Read more »
