Humanists At Risk / 31 May 2023 Bangladesh: Facebook blocks domestic access to blogger’s posts Domestic access to human rights activist and secular blogger, Asad Noor's Facebook page blocked in Bangladesh Read More
Advocacy News / 16 March 2021 Humanists International at UN: justice for Asad Noor and Ashraf Fayadh is long overdue Humanists International took the floor to remind Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia of their moral and legal obligation to uphold the… Read More
General news / 16 February 2021 Bangladeshi court gave verdict on Avijit Roy’s murder suspects Six years after the att, a court in Bangladesh has sentenced the murderers of Avijit Roy. Read More
Advocacy News / 21 November 2020 UN rights experts urge Bangladesh to investigate violations regarding Asad Noor’s case UN rights experts have called on the Bangladesh government to provide information on several violations of internationally guaranteed human rights… Read More
Action Alert - Live / 4 August 2020 Bangladesh should drop spurious charges against blogger Asad Noor Noor has been charged with ‘spreading rumours’ and ‘defaming Islam’. Authorities in Bangladesh are threatening his family in retribution. Read More
General news / 14 February 2020 The astonishing success of Think – humanist videos “for the curious everywhere” Think is a project funded by Humanists International, whose goal is to create entertaining HD videos on science, history and… Read More
Campaigns / 5 March 2019 If humanism is “blasphemy” then anti-blasphemy laws must go! Humanists International reminds the Human Rights Council that 'blasphemy' and 'apostasy' laws violate the human rights of both religious and… Read More
General news / 11 June 2018 Freethinking writer and politician shot dead in Bangladesh A publisher of poetry and ‘freethought’ texts, who openly identified as atheist, has been shot dead in Bangladesh. Shahzahan Bachchu… Read More
24 February 2017 Sweden rejects asylum application for threatened Bangladeshi blogger Following the murders of several fellow bloggers in his homeland of Bangladesh, and having received death threats himself, Mishu Dhar… Read More
General news / 12 May 2016 Witnessing Horror in Father’s Dream Land: Tribute to a Believer in Free Speech Rumana Hashem asks how the horrors of mob killing — including many unreported incidents — is destroying the social fabric of… Read More
25 April 2016 Two LGBT activists are latest victims of serial killings in Bangladesh Two LGBT activists have been hacked to death at a house in Kalabagan, Dhaka. Xulhaz Mannan was editor of the LGBT magazine Roopbaan and… Read More