Human Rights
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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By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg has proclaimed a new age of freedom in Britain as he called on the public to send on suggestions for laws the coalition government should scrap. In the next stage of the deputy prime minister’s bonfire of draconian legislation, Mr Clegg spoke to voters directly on YouTube today, calling on… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The European court of human rights has rejected an attempt by the UK government to appeal a judgment over its stop-and-search powers. The decision means that a January 2010 court judgement which found section 44 of the Terrorism Act to be illegal is final. “This appeal was always doomed,” said Isabella Sankey,… Read more »
