Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 30 September
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Gaps in equality law are leading to "undesirable and unnecessary religious discrimination" in schools and the workplace and fuelling segregation, a new report from the National Secular Society has found.
Concerns around the safeguarding of pupils at the independent Al Jamiatul Islamiyah school in Deane were raised by regulator Ofsted in a report published in June 2020.
Couples having humanist weddings can have up to 15 guests, the Government has confirmed, after confusion over whether the ceremonies would be included under the same rules as religious events.
Uighurs and other Muslim minorities would be given the right to petition a UK high court judge to declare that genocide is taking place in China, requiring the UK government to curtail trade ties with Beijing, under proposals brought by MPs and peers.
The Manchester Arena bomber's brother posted extremist images and Islamic State propaganda on social media before the attack, the inquiry into the bombing has heard.
The Republican party has cannily repackaged valid scrutiny as religious bigotry. But liberals are right to ask hard questions of Trump's pick, says Jill Filipovic.
Women charged police lines and threw Molotov cocktails at officers in Mexico City on Monday during protests demanding the legalization of abortion in the majority Roman Catholic country.
Why make a spectacle out of religion in the courtroom? In this bonus episode Stephen Evans, CEO of the NSS, makes the case for replacing religious oaths and affirmations should be replaced by a universal secular declaration of the solemn duty to tell the truth.
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Note: Yesterday's media briefing suggested a proposed assisted dying bill had been tabled in Northern Ireland. It was instead tabled in the Republic of Ireland.
