The European Secularist Network strongly denounces the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to abortion. As soon as this outrageous decision was announced, several states took measures to ban abortion completely or to severely restrict it. This decision is a serious attack on (...)

The European Secularist Network welcomes the adoption of the resolution “on global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturning of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court” by the European Parliament on 9 June 2022. regressions of women’s rights A large majority of MEPs strongly condemn “the backsliding (...)

The Polish Catholic fundamentalist organisation Ordo Iuris (OI), linked to the traditionalist sectarian network TFP (Tradition, Family, Property), recently announced the creation of a Spanish branch. an international anti-rights offensive The expansion of this organisation is part of the internationalisation of the reactionary offensive against fundamental rights, primarily of women (...)

In a resolution adopted on 3 May, the European Parliament affirms its commitment to freedom of thought, conscience, belief and religion. It also calls on the EU institutions to defend it in their internal and international policies. Far from limiting it to “religious freedom”, the resolution rightly recalls that this (...)

The report of the independent commission (CIASE) headed by Jean-Marc Sauvé, which revealed the extent of sexual abuse of minors in the Church in France, also recommended a few rules to follow for the compensation of victims. Its recommendation 33 rules out any financing of the compensation fund by recourse (...)

The European Secularist Network is deeply shocked by the aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation and the suffering of the Ukrainian people. The ESN strongly condemns this flagrant violation of human rights, this clear act of war, this brutal invasion of a sovereign country. We call on everyone to (...)

Today, 8 March, the secularist movement celebrates International Women’s Rights Day. In Europe, progress has been made alongside stagnation and even regression. The pandemic and the measures taken to combat it have aggravated certain phenomena, in the world of work, but also gender-based violence. Religious fundamentalist organisations continue their offensive (...)

20 years committed to the secularity of Spain. Europa Laica has completed in 2021 twenty years since its establishment in 2001. A long journey where we have shared a continued commitment to secularism in our country. During these two decades, important rights and freedoms have been achieved, although many challenges (...)

Following French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to include the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, COMECE[1] has issued a statement in which it affirms its opposition. It is of course free to do so. However, by stating that “there is no right to abortion recognised in (...)

The colloquium organised on 31 January 2021 by the French association Egale on freedom of conscience in Europe was an opportunity for fruitful exchanges on this issue, which is crucial for secularism. The first roundtable brilliantly traced the history of freedom of conscience, mentioned certain threats to this freedom and (...)

Human cultural diversity is particularly evident in culinary diversity. It is an undeniable richness within each people and an opportunity for multiple exchanges. It goes without saying that everyone eats as they wish. This is an elementary but decisive freedom. However, controversies in which confusion vies with political ulterior motives (...)

According to information published by the daily Rzeczpospolita, in December 2021 the Holy See, through the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, sent Polish bishops an instruction “for internal use” forbidding them to communicate to the authorities files of canon law proceedings against clerics in cases of sexual abuse of minors.                (...)