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Action Alert / 11 March 2020

Don’t let Mahmoud die, Humanists International tells UN

Humanists International make intervention at the UN to call for greater protection of Somali Professor threatened with death because of…

Action Alert / 6 March 2020

Protect Mahmoud, the Somali professor accused of blasphemy for a Facebook post

Prof. Jama Ahmed received public death threats on charges of blasphemy and apostasy. Humanists International calls for the Somali authorities…

Advocacy Statement / 2019 / South Africa /

Child sacrifice

International Humanist and Ethical Union 40th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (25th February – 22nd March 2019) General…

Conferences / 19 November 2019

President of Zambia declares “fools think there is no God” – reports

Humanists and atheists in Zambia are stigmatised for not believing in God

Conferences / 3 July 2019

“On we go”: Zambian humanists and atheists look forward to first national meeting – despite moral panic

Zambian Humanists & Atheists to organise the "I'm a proud humanist" youth conference on 18 October in the capital Lusaka

Advocacy Statement / 2019 / Egypt / African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights /

Apostasy and blasphemy laws in Africa

International Humanist and Ethical Union Oral Statement Human Rights Situation in Africa 64th Session of the African Commission on Human…

Campaigns / 20 March 2019

“Child sacrifice continues today” – Humanists implore Human Rights Council to act

Some so-called 'witchdoctors' and 'traditional' healers continue to torture and kill children in a number of countries.

8 November 2018

NGOs call for release of Mauritanian Blogger still detained a year after court quashed his death sentence

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has joined 31 NGOs in calling on Mauritania to release anti-slavery blogger, Mohamed…

Advocacy Statement / 2018 / India / UN Human Rights Council / Item 8: Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action /

Harmful witchcraft beliefs and practices

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 39th Session (10th – 28th September 2018) General Debate…

Humanists International News / 15 August 2018

Humanists remember two colleagues and friends from Uganda

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is saddened to learn of the deaths of two stalwarts of Humanism in…

Advocacy Statement / 2018 / Belarus / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

Populism and anti-LGBTI prejudice

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 38th Session…

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