Do Humanists celebrate Christmas or are they all just like Ebenezer Scrooge? Humbug! Fraser Sutherland • HSS • December 2017 “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” – Scrooge, A Christmas Carol…
Are Scottish ‘Hate Crime’ laws fit for purpose? Fraser Sutherland • HSS • November 2017 By Fraser Sutherland, Campaigns Manager Humanist Society Scotland Few will forget the shocking religiously motivated murder of popular Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah in 2016. But the legacy of this crime and how the perpetrator was charged in the Scottish legal…
Academic Success Fraser Sutherland • HSS • November 2017 Professor Callum Brown Following the publication of the Religion in Scots Law report in 2016, the University of Glasgow Humanist Studies Hub and Humanist Society Scotland co-hosted four seminars and a Religion and Law conference to consider the report’s findings….
Equal Protection Bill Fraser Sutherland • HSS • October 2017 By John Finnie MSP “There are some things where Scotland is doing very, very well and there are some things that are absolutely shocking, where Scotland is coming last in the world. We still in Scotland say that it’s okay…
Vandalism of Bangladesh restaurants ‘violating’ Ramadam Fraser Sutherland • HSS • July 2017 Guest post by Bangladesh Humanist Blogger Prithu Sanyal (Twitter: @atheistprithu) Across the world the month of Ramadan is observed with respect. In my home country of Bangladesh, most of the restaurants and tea stalls are closed to respect Ramadan and those fasting….
Scottish Government should stand firm on free abortion row Fraser Sutherland • HSS • June 2017 By Fraser Sutherland, HSS Campaigns and Communications Manager Earlier this week Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, was reportedly in discussion with the country’s Chief Medical Officer, Catherine Calderwood, about allowing Northern Irish women the right to access to free abortion…
The Right to a Good Death – Why Scotland Should Lead the Way Fraser Sutherland • HSS • June 2017 By Ally Thomson, Dignity in Dying Director for Scotland, originally published in Spring 2017 Humanitie. Growing up in Scotland 30 or so years ago I would never have imagined that one day I’d be talking up its socially progressive street credibility….
The Devil in the Detail: The debate on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity in Malawi Fraser Sutherland • HSS • May 2017 Guest Blog by Alan Msosa, Malawian Commonwealth Scholar for PhD in Human Rights at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. The current debate on homosexuality in Malawi has exposed the government’s failure to come up with a position on whether LGBT…
Why we need a Global Humanist Movement Fraser Sutherland • HSS • May 2017 By Gary McLelland, Chief Executive, International Humanist and Ethical Union. Article originally published in Spring 2017 Humanitie. 2017. The politics of division and fear are on the rise across Europe. Questions of race and identity divide America, in a manner…
Time for Inclusive Education Fraser Sutherland • HSS • April 2017 By Liam Stevenson, TIE campaign co-founder. Article originally published in the Spring 2017 version of Humanitie Throughout the lifetime of the TIE Campaign, Jordan Daly and myself have always tried to be dynamic when it comes to our strategy. We’ve…
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