WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en-GB 00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:11.590 Well done, you've completed Week 2. Over this week we met humanist campaigners in the 00:00:11.590 --> 00:00:16.520 UK and learned about the motivations that lie behind their work. These 00:00:16.520 --> 00:00:20.750 campaigns are not the only things that humanists believe are needed to make the 00:00:20.750 --> 00:00:24.710 world a better place and they're not the only things individual humanists 00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:29.599 campaign for, but they are the campaigns on which humanists organisations tend to 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:34.129 focus their time, as they are the areas in which the humanist voice can often 00:00:34.129 --> 00:00:39.080 make a unique and important difference. We learned about what drives these 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:45.050 humanists to demand less religious influence in education and politics. We 00:00:45.050 --> 00:00:49.489 learned about their fight to change existing laws on abortion and assisted 00:00:49.489 --> 00:00:54.140 dying in ways that they believe would reduce suffering and respect personal 00:00:54.140 --> 00:01:00.199 autonomy. And we learned how a real focus on human rights and secularism underpins 00:01:00.199 --> 00:01:05.089 these goals. Humanists believe that changes in the areas we've explored this 00:01:05.089 --> 00:01:10.100 week would ultimately benefit everyone, regardless of their religion or belief. 00:01:10.100 --> 00:01:14.450 They believe that human rights are the best way to ensure that all of us have 00:01:14.450 --> 00:01:18.800 opportunities to live flourishing lives and that secularism promises the best 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:24.709 hope for freedom, equality and a better understanding of each other in a plural 00:01:24.709 --> 00:01:30.440 society. And while many significant steps have been made towards guaranteeing 00:01:30.440 --> 00:01:35.800 human freedoms, humanists believe there's still plenty of work to be done. 00:01:35.800 --> 00:01:38.400 See you next week.