Phil Newby, who has motor neurone disease, has today been refused permission by the High Court to challenge England and Wales’s prohibitive law on assisted dying. Humanists UK has expressed disappointment at the decision, but hopes it doesn’t affect the separate case of Paul Lamb, who is making his challenge on different grounds. Phil also […]

Wales Humanists has told the Welsh Government to prioritise tackling religious discrimination in the education system in a response to a consultation on its four-year strategic equality plan. Although Wales Humanists has welcomed proposals by the Welsh Government to make the subject of Religious Education (RE) more inclusive, by including content on non-religious worldviews and […]

Conservationist and broadcaster Chris Packham CBE is set to receive the second ever Humanists UK Darwin Day Medal on 12 February 2020. The lecture will be chaired by Humanists UK President Professor Alice Roberts. Every year, The Darwin Day Lecture explores humanism and humanist thought as related to science and evolution, or the works of […]

Schools are being warned not to support the Operation Christmas Child appeal run by an evangelical US charity Samaritan’s Purse, which unbeknownst to many parents uses donors’ gifts to evangelise to vulnerable children, after it emerged that more schools are collecting donations for the scheme. Operation Christmas Child sends shoeboxes full of toys, books, and […]

Humanists UK has welcomed the release of a new report which documents the persecution faced by humanists, atheists, and other non-religious people, including in 70 countries that have severe punishments for leaving a religion or expressing non-religious beliefs. The 2019 Freedom of Thought Report by Humanists International, released today, finds that while eight countries have […]

Humanists UK today announced that tickets for its Rosalind Franklin Lecture and Voltaire Lecture are now on sale. The organisation plans to announce its Darwin Day Lecture very soon. At that time, tickets for all three events will also sell as part of a combined ‘multi-lecture pass’, allowing attendees to purchase one ticket for all […]

Humanists UK is encouraging all of its members and supporters to ask their GPs to back dignity and compassion for everyone by voting in support of assisted dying in the Royal College of General Practitioners’ survey, which closes on 13 December 2019. Earlier this year the RCGP announced that its 53,000 members across the UK […]

Humanist representatives are preparing to take part in all of the national Remembrance Day ceremonies across the UK this Sunday, including at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Westminster, the Welsh National Service, the Northern Ireland Service, and the Scottish National Remembrance Service. Humanists UK and its armed forces section, Defence Humanists, […]

Humanists UK has teamed up with its patron Stephen Fry to launch a new campaign film entitled ‘Every Human Being’, which celebrates the commitment that humanists make towards the basic rights that everyone is entitled to by simple virtue of being human. The 57-second video, narrated by Stephen Fry, opens with an allusion to Article […]

The first billboards advertising legal same-sex marriages in Northern Ireland have been erected across Belfast today by Northern Ireland Humanists, marking the traditionally conservative country’s groundbreaking progress towards an inclusive, tolerant society. Northern Ireland Humanists, which conducts humanist marriages, funerals, and naming ceremonies and has a long history of campaigning for human rights, including legal […]