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'Harassed. Attacked. Arrested.' Humanists in Parliament hear about global worrying rise in non-religious persecution » Humanists UK


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 fr ....

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Fiona Bruce MP: new protector of religious freedom


Richard Townshend
Fiona Bruce MP
THE appointment of Fiona Bruce MP as the Government’s special envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) will help people of faith to live “without fear or favour across the world”, the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, has said.
Ms Bruce is the Conservative MP for Congleton and chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. Her appointment as special envoy was announced by the Prime Minister on Sunday.
She succeeds Rehman Chishti MP, who resigned from the position in September, saying he could not support the Government’s Internal Markets Bill, which broke sections of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (News, 18 September). ....

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