Humanist and Christian leaders have come together to urge as many people as possible to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The move, by the UK’s humanist movement and by Churches Together in England the Scottish Church Leaders Forum on behalf of their around 60 member churches, is being made now that everyone over 40 has been […]
May 25th, 2021
Yesterday, members of the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) heard moving testimonies from three victims of non-religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, as well as from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief on the extent of the problem more generally and the UK Government on what it is doing to tackle it. Each speaker highlighted a worrying rise in state sponsored persecution and mob violence against the non-religious.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for Human Rights at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, began the meeting by providing a thorough outline of the UK Government’s work in support of freedom of religion or belief. He discussed his work with his Pakistani and Nigerian counterparts to challenge cases where the country’s blasphemy laws have been used to persecute individuals from minority groups, including humanists. He restated the UK Government’s commitment to promoting freedom of
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Parliamentarians join forces in effort to retain ban on assisted dying youtube/democracy3
The Conservative MP Danny Kruger in a video promoting the parliamentary campaign against legalising assisted dying
The Conservative MP Danny Kruger in a video promoting the parliamentary campaign against legalising assisted dying
THE Christian Conservative MP Danny Kruger is co-ordinating opposition in Parliament to the “well-organised, well-funded” campaign to legalise assisted dying.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, which Mr Kruger chairs, was launched last week. Its stated purpose is “To promote excellence in palliative care and stand against the legalisation of doctor assisted suicide”. Its vice-chairs include the former leaders of the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, Tim Farron and Sir Iain Duncan Smith, and a former Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Lord Chartres, who is a crossbench peer.
A retired neurosurgeon with advanced prostate cancer has backed calls from a cross-party group of more than 50 MPs and Peers for the Government to instigate a review of the UK’s assisted dying laws.
Dr Henry Marsh, who is also an author, said he believed that if people in his situation were able to “choose how, when, and where they would die” this would “greatly reduce their suffering”.
His comments come alongside a joint letter from parliamentarians to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland which argued the UK was “falling behind the rest of the world”.
The letter, coordinated by Humanists UK and campaign group My Death, My Decision, claimed that “our laws on assisted dying are letting down our citizens”.