This is not our secularism / Ce n’est pas notre laïcité
French translation below Statement from the offices of Humanists International on the “burkini ban” now being enforced in parts of…
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At UN, IHEU and Danish Humanist Society call on Denmark to abolish blasphemy law
Humanists told the UN Human Rights Council this morning that “the state-church institution is fundamentally unfair” in Denmark as elsewhere,…
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Humanists to Greece: It is past time to abolish “blasphemy” law
Consecutive Greek governments have pledged to reassess or abolish the country’s outdated “blasphemy” laws but have failed to achieve any progress, campaigners have…
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Luxembourg humanists sued for massive “damages”, could face prison, over a Facebook post
The President of the Luxembourg Alliance of Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics (AHA) faces a possible prison sentence and a lawsuit…
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Humanists in Malta
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and the European Humanist Federation (EHF) held their respective General Assemblies in Valletta…
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Welcome to the IHEU General Assembly 2016
President of the IHEU, Andrew Copson, welcomed delegates to the IHEU General Assembly in Malta today (Sunday 22 May). The prepared…
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“Tense Times”: Freedom of Expression and Religion or Belief at the UN
IHEU director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, reflects on the relationship between the rights to expression and religion or belief and…
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On nationalism and the scapegoating of minorities
ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 31st Session (29th February – 24th March 2016) General…
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IHEU urges more to be done to combat harmful and exclusionary ideology of populist nationalism
On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has called on the…
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Psychiatric detention and charges against atheist show “Soviet era abuse of psychiatry, apparently alive and well in Russia today”
An atheist in Russia, Viktor Krasnov (38) faces the threat of jail time for saying online that, “There is no god”…
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Creationism is dead in Iceland
0.0% of Icelanders aged 25 or younger believe that “God” created the world, according to a new poll. The finding…
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