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Coerced faith: the battle against forced conversions in Pakistan’s Dalit community

  • byShaukat Korai
In Pakistan's Sindh province, young girls from religious minorities are being abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to their abductors. Investigation by journalist Shaukat Korai.
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The Freethinker and early republicanism: from the archive

  • byEmma Park
The letter by Albert E. Standley that led to the formation of Republic, first published in the Freethinker, December 1982.
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Bring on the British republic – Graham Smith’s ‘Abolish the Monarchy’, reviewed

  • byDaniel James Sharp
'Our monarchs seem to have spent more time secretly lobbying for tax exemptions than standing up for liberty.'
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How laïcité can save secularism

  • byKunwar Khuldune Shahid
How French-style laïcité 'treats religion like any other ideology', and why it is arguably the only effective form of secularism.
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‘The real beauty comes from contemplating the universe’: humanism with Sarah Bakewell

  • byEmma Park
The author of ‘Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope' speaks to the Freethinker.
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Blasphemy and bishops: how secularists are navigating the culture wars

  • byEmma Park
Review of two recent events: Blasphemy Law by the Back Door (Free Speech Union); and Future of Church and State (National Secular Society).
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