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General news / 23 September 2014

IHEU highlights “traditional” and “cultural” practices that undermine women’s sexual and reproductive rights

During an intervention at the UN Human Rights Council, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) head of delegation, Elizabeth…

General news / 22 September 2014

Religious law, prison for “blasphemy”, severe sexual inequalilty: Qatar’s human rights review

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has raised serious concerns about the situation for freedom of religion, belief, expression…

General news / 19 September 2014

New Sharia law, harsh penalties, worse to come: Brunei’s human rights review

Earlier this year, Brunei started the process of introducing Sharia law into its penal code. The new Penal Code contains…

Campaigns / 17 September 2014

ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence

Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,…

General news / 24 July 2014

IHEU statement on Israel-Palestine conflict

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is deeply pained by the resumption of conflict, after a period of relative…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Mauritania / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

Imprisoned for blasphemy and apostasy: two cases

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) Agenda Item 4: General Debate IMPRISONED…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Cameroon / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

The right to free expression and assembly for LBGTI people

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) General Debate, Item 3 The right…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Kuwait / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

The use of ‘offence’ in silencing online journalists

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) Panel Discussion on the Safety of…

General news / 12 June 2014

What is free expression when journalists and activists are “banned or punished by lashes, prison or the death penalty”?

International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) spoke yesterday afternoon at the UN Human Rights Council on how many states are…

General news / 11 June 2014

“Insult” and “offence” are used to silence and jail online journalists

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has spoken today at the 26th session of the Human Rights Council on how…

Action Alert / 10 June 2014

#TwitterTheocracy campaign after social network blocks “blasphemy” in Pakistan

Twitter recently agreed to block “blasphemous tweets” in Pakistan, thus becoming complicit in suppressing free speech, and in aiding Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.…

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