Irish organisation is believed to be the first national atheist campaign group to gain such status
Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland. They said they would be highlighting religious discrimination in Irish schools at a meeting of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child next month. Photograph Nick BradshawAtheist Ireland has been granted special consultative status at the United Nations in what is believed to be a first for a national campaign group of its type.
“It means we can engage with the UN Economic and Social Council, Human Rights Council, General Assembly, and Secretariat, in order to advance our aims,” said the group’s chair Michael Nugent and human rights officer Jane Donnelly in a joint statement. “On January 24th and 25th, we will attend our first UN session with special consultative status, when the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will be questioning Ireland in Geneva. We will be highlighting religious discrimination in Irish schools including the lack of objective sex education,” they said.
While there is at least one international atheist group with consultative status at the UN, it is understood Atheist Ireland is the first national-level atheist organisation to secure such status.
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