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The government's current plans to counter-extremism "drives wedges between communities" and is based on the flawed assumption that conservative religious views correlate with violence.
This is according to a damning report by parliament's joint-committee for human rights which said the plans for a bill to tackle extremism have "stalled or even gone backwards" as the government cannot even define what it means by "non-violent extremism".
Most courses in medical ethics begin not with the contested battlefields of the beginning, end and moral status of human life, but rather with the far more mundane issues of capacity and consent. These related concepts are crucial to the whole practice of medicine – for a healthcare practitioner even to take a medical history from a patient (let alone administer medication or perform surgery), it is vital that the patient gives their consent. For them to be able to do this, the patient must be deemed to have the mental capacity to make such a decision.
The first ever recorded figures showing how many girls and women have suffered from female genital mutilation - or FGM - in England are being released.
At the moment the government estimates 170,000 women and girls have undergone the procedure in the UK.
It says a further 65,000 girls under the age of 13 are at risk of FGM.
School children should be allowed to choose another subject in place of religion, a new study has recommended.
Atheists, Muslims and Evangelicals in Ireland are supporting the change as part of a joint call for religious education reform.
They argue that the state-endorsed religious education course should not be compulsory.
AN ILLIBERAL religious establishment acted as a roadblock to efforts to halt an explosion in HIV deaths in Scotland the 1980s, previously classified documents have revealed.
Records of a UK Government committee, set up to co-ordinate a response to a new disease causing widespread public panic, show that ministers courted churches in a bid to win support for new sex education classes in schools and then-controversial initiatives such as handing out clean needles to drug addicts to prevent the spread of HIV.
Women are missing out on a new once-a-month method of contraception due to outdated abortion laws, campaigners say.
Scientists are unable to develop a birth control pill that would work just after a fertilised egg has been implanted as it would fall foul of abortion policy.
The outspoken General Secretary of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), a movement of orthodox Anglicans who have distanced themselves from liberally-driven mostly Western Anglican provinces, says pressure is being exerted within the Church of Ireland to change its teaching on sexual morality - in common with other Provinces in the British Isles - and, as a consequence, weaken her commitment to Biblical authority.
MENOPAUSE need not be the end of fertility. A team claims to have found a way to rejuvenate post-menopausal ovaries, enabling them to release fertile eggs, New Scientist can reveal.
The team says its technique has restarted periods in menopausal women, including one who had not menstruated in five years. If the results hold up to wider scrutiny, the technique may boost declining fertility in older women, allow women with early menopause to get pregnant, and help stave off the detrimental health effects of menopause.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit in federal court Tuesday against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation on behalf of health care professionals who wish to abide by their oath to “do no harm.” The state agencies are construing Vermont’s assisted suicide law as requiring them, regardless of their conscience or oath, to counsel patients on doctor-prescribed death as an option.
The father of a Duluth middle school student who took his own life is suing the school district claiming it failed to protect his son from bullying that resulted in his death.
Thirteen-year-old Tristan Seehus committed suicide in February of 2015. His father, Todd Seehus, says other students called his son a "freak" and shoved him into lockers at Lincoln Park Middle School because they mistakenly thought he was gay. It says the Duluth School District's failure to address the bullying amounted to discrimination. The complaint says the district ignored and diminished the abuse.