This summer, IHEU reported on the case of an atheist, Mubarak Bala, detained in a psychiatric ward because he was an…

The British Humanist Association and Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN), are being sued by the wealthy evangelical preacher…

Nobel Laureate and staunch defender of freedom and humanism, Wole Soyinka, joined Pakistani women’s rights activist, Gulalai Ismail, in being…

WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against…

A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria,…

News is breaking of further atrocities in Nigeria today. Yesterday the Islamist terror group Boko Haram again attacked villages in Borno…

In the wake of Nigeria enacting a bill banning all gay associations and meetings, the country has seen dozens of anti-gay arrests, men…

In the face of international criticism, the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has signed a law into effect which criminalises…

Human Rights Groups Call for Week of Social Media Activism Against Witch-Hunts in Cross River State, Nigeria A group of…

The Russian parliament has unanimously passed an anti-gay "propaganda" law today, condemned by human rights groups around the world as…