Action Alert / 10 November 2009 Act now to save Iranian apostate from execution Please act now to ask the Iranian government to stop the execution of Ehsan Fattahian scheduled for Wednesday, November 11,… Read More
Campaigns / 29 October 2009 United Nations will violate Human Rights says new report on religious freedoms UN Blasphemy Law Would Make Religious Disagreements a Crime The United Nations is in danger of creating a global blasphemy… Read More
Conferences / 22 October 2009 Eighth International Humanist Youth Conference opens in Kathmandu, Nepal. “Secularism is about freedom of religion and importantly also from religion. People should have the freedom to practice their religion… Read More
Action Alert / 8 October 2009 Appeal to save juveniles due to be executed within three days in Iran Mina Ahadi and Nazanin Afshin-Jam write: "Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this… Read More
Members and partners / 5 October 2009 In memoriam Premanand It is with great sadness that we report the death of Premanand, the leading Indian campaigner against superstition. He died… Read More
1 October 2009 IHEU condemns Sudan and Iran for using rape as a “political weapon” Speaking in the plenary debate at the Human Rights Council on 30 September on the Rights of Women, IHEU representative… Read More
17 September 2009 IHEU attacks religious discrimination and violence at UN [Subtitled video now available] In a speech to the 12th session of the Human Rights Council on 16 September, IHEU… Read More
Campaigns / 22 July 2009 Iran Solidarity calls for support for global day of action on 25 July 2009 Iran Solidarity is calling for people across the world to stand with the people of Iran on July 25 and… Read More
18 June 2009 IHEU questions Chinese membership of UN Human Rights Council 20 years after Tiananmen Square, IHEU has criticized China's human rights record and urged the international community to consider again… Read More
18 June 2009 UN begins to move on caste discrimination Caste discrimination “clealy falls within my mandate” claimed the newly-appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Racism Mr Mugai, speaking on 16… Read More
18 June 2009 IHEU challenges the view that “defamation of religion” is a form of racism On 16 June, during the general debate on racism at the Human Rights Council, the Pakistani delegate Muhammad Saeed Sarwar,… Read More