Humanism Oxfordshire

With considerable regret, the administrative committee for Oxford Humanists has decided that it is time to begin the process of winding up the group. Over coming weeks, the committee will be working on how best to effect closure and will keep members updated as things progress.

Today morning, dozens of #female_students of #Badakhshan University conducted a protest, after they were denied entry to the Uni campus&beaten by the #Taliban guards, for not wearing Burqa or full #Hijab. Below are video clips from SM, showing the situation around Badakhshan Uni.

Very worrying ! Iran has accused journalists, Niloufar Hamedi & Elaheh Mohammadi of being trained U.S. agents. Hamedi was among the first to report on #Mahsamini’ s hospitalization & Mohammadi covered Amini’s funeral. They did their job. #journalismisnotacrime

Another precious life taken by the ruthless regime in Iran. 17-yr-old #SadafMovahedi died from internal bleeding after being beaten with a baton by security forces on her way back from school. Her family is being threatened to stay silent. #MahsaAmini #صدف_موحدی #IranRevoIution

Imagine a world where you felt comfortable expressing what you wanted at end of life. Imagine being able to support someone grieving. Imagine being able to create the funeral your loved ones wanted. Dying Matters aims to make this happen. Join us today. loom.ly/7QuaWtE

We need to urgently transform our food system. Please join me and sign the petition calling on governments of the countries which consume the most meat per capita to tackle the climate crisis by reducing meat and dairy consumption. bit.ly/3ErD0S8

Please look at this - act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rail-fares…

Humanist Association of Ghana is proud to be part of a number of coalitions against the homophobic Bill being put to parliament. We worked with @LGBTRightsGhana, @RightifyGhana and other human rights groups. #KillTheBill #QueerGhanaiansLivesMatter 1/2

Atheist Ireland supports the campaign to free Iranian blogger #SoheilArabi - Find out how you can help today, 3 October, which is International #SoheilDay atheist.ie/2021/10/free-s…

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

You can show your support for one of our campaigns on our website: secularism.org.uk/campaigns/ We aim to feature the best messages of support in Newsline.

We saved two young children from a flooded area and brought them to our orphanage a couple of days ago. Mustapha & Mouphatou were already facing hardship as their father had recently passed away and unfortunately their mother had also left them. Our orphanage now has 30 children.

Why does heaven have gates?

Responding to @BritishAcademy_'s report which warns of a "Covid decade" following the pandemic, @EHRCChair says that "UK and devolved governments must now put equality and human rights at the heart of our national recovery strategies so that no-one is left behind."

"If someone believes that X is evidence, then it's evidence." << This is how fake news is born. Conspiracy theories and confidence tricks fit that pattern.

A majority support does not render legitimacy to ideas/worldview. We might be wrong, like when we collectively assumed we roamed a flat Earth. Blindly following others’ notions, disables vital, critical thinking. An unabated quest for truth & meaning truly serves humanity.

In this week's Newsline: 🔵 Hate crime bill passes and blasphemy law abolished in Scotland 🔵 Major reform of teaching on religion and belief passes in Wales 🔵 EasyJet compensates woman over request to indulge religious sexism 🔵 And more... secularism.org.uk/newsletters/vi…

If you want to know more about our work supporting people who've left high-control religions and cults, you can read our interview with @ste_richardsson @faith2faithless here: humanism.org.uk/2019/06/04/fai…

We're not coming for your rights; we're coming for your privilege.