Update: Iran has withdrawn its candidacy. IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx today launched an international appeal to keep Iran out of…

Legal and diplomatic condemnations of Iran by UN Member States In March 2010, the Federal Court of Switzerland, the country’s…

Two people have been reported killed in riots against Humanist writer Taslima Nasrin in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.…

One of IHEU's Dutch member organization, HIVOS (the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation), is being targeted by the Islamic regime…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has joined an appeal to the UN to help the situation of Christians…

For the last few weeks Humanists, Rationalists and Human Rights activists have been waging a huge battle against the forces…

Please act now to ask the Iranian government to stop the execution of Ehsan Fattahian scheduled for Wednesday, November 11,…

UN Blasphemy Law Would Make Religious Disagreements a Crime The United Nations is in danger of creating a global blasphemy…

“Secularism is about freedom of religion and importantly also from religion. People should have the freedom to practice their religion…

Mina Ahadi and Nazanin Afshin-Jam write: "Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this…

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Premanand, the leading Indian campaigner against superstition. He died…