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The high court has thrown out the lifetime bans imposed by the Department for Education on two teachers caught up in the Trojan horse controversy.
The decision is a latest setback for the DfE in its handling of allegations of Islamic influence at Park View secondary school in Birmingham dating back to 2014, and may hinder disciplinary hearings against others still under way.
A Scottish health board has announced a change to its policy on data sharing in light of the UK Supreme Court’s historic ruling against the Named Person scheme.
NHS Tayside had been routinely handing out a leaflet to parents at its A&E departments telling them that, following Named Person guidance from the Scottish Government, “your own details or those of your child may be disclosed to other professionals”.
A human rights activist has revealed the full extent of the risks facing people who turn away from Islam, ahead of the airing of an ITV documentary this evening.
The documentary, entitled Exposure: Islam’s Non Believers, is set to air on ITV from 10:40 this evening. Maryam Namazie, a commentator and secularist who leads the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and took part in the documentary, revealed to Julia Hartley-Brewer what her experience as an 'apostate' has been like.
The European Citizens’ Initiative “Mum Dad & Kids”, which calls on the European Union to legally define “marriage”, for the purposes of EU law, as (only) the union between one man and one woman, and “family” as based on marriage and/or descent, has surpassed the national threshold in 4 Member States.
According to a statement that was released today by the organizing committee, these countries are Poland, Greece, Slovakia, and Finland. This count includes not only the signatures collected online, but also those that have been collected on paper.
People with Down’s syndrome and their families deliver petition signed by over 900 people with Down’s syndrome and their families opposing “discriminatory” prenatal screening proposal to Jeremy Hunt asking him to not ‘screen them out’.
Individuals with Down’s syndrome and their families delivered a letter to Jeremy Hunt at the Department of Health yesterday, signed by over 900 people with Down’s syndrome and their families, to protest proposals to introduce a discriminatory new screening technique which is expected to lead to a profound increase in the number of children with Down’s syndrome screened out by termination.
(CFAM) — Last Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rejected an attempt to legalize surrogacy throughout Europe.
By a narrow majority, the representatives of the 47 Member States rejected a recommendation aimed at regulating the selling of female gametes and renting of women’s wombs.
This was the third attempt to normalize surrogacy by Belgian Senator Petra de Sutter. Advocates tried to distinguish between what they called “altruistic” vs. “for-profit” surrogacy, only condemning the latter.
The Dutch government intends to draft a law that would legalise assisted suicide for people who feel they have "completed life", but are not necessarily terminally ill, it said on Wednesday.
The Netherlands was the first country to legalise euthanasia, in 2002, but only for patients who were considered to be suffering unbearable pain with no hope of a cure.
While the Catholic Church must minister to people with real psychological confusion over their sexuality, it “can never compromise the truth” that our gender and sexuality are God-given and flow directly from our biological bodies, Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury told educators in parishes and private Catholic schools in his diocese.
Once described by the Catholic Herald as “probably the most passionately orthodox bishop in England today,” Davies echoed the great English Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton in stating, “I have often warned that, in that vacuum left by the loss of Christian faith within contemporary society, new ideologies would emerge.”
Editors of the New Atlantis, a scholarly journal "devoted to science and technology issues and their relation to social and political affairs," are defending two authors against an onslaught of gay accusations.
A review of research studies and scientific literature on homosexuality summarized by Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh, entitled “Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences,” has come under vehement condemnation by the pro-homosexual advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
The National Assembly met in a plenary session on Wednesday 12 October to debate and vote on the 21st century justice law (La loi sur la justice au XX1eme siècle), which included provisions relating to legal gender recognition.
Under the updated process, trans people will no longer have to be sterilised before being legally recognised in their true gender. In addition to this, there will be no requirement to provide proof of medical treatment, as had been proposed in amendments introduced by the Senate several weeks ago. Emancipated minors will also be able to access the updated procedure.