Conferences / 12 August 2014 Wole Soyinka’s International Humanist Award acceptance speech – full text Nobel Laureate and staunch defender of freedom and humanism, Wole Soyinka, joined Pakistani women’s rights activist, Gulalai Ismail, in being… Read More
Campaigns / 3 July 2014 Mubarak Bala is free WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against… Read More
Campaigns / 24 June 2014 Nigerian man detained on psychiatric ward for “atheism” A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria,… Read More
General news / 14 April 2014 The Boko Haram insurgence in Nigeria: a cry for help News is breaking of further atrocities in Nigeria today. Yesterday the Islamist terror group Boko Haram again attacked villages in Borno… Read More
General news / 25 March 2014 IHEU stresses “universality” of human rights as the UN reviews Nigeria’s record In the wake of Nigeria enacting a bill banning all gay associations and meetings, the country has seen dozens of anti-gay arrests, men… Read More
13 January 2014 IHEU condemns “heinous” abandonment of gay rights in Nigeria In the face of international criticism, the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has signed a law into effect which criminalises… Read More
Action Alert / 11 November 2013 Take Action: Social media campaign against “witch-hunting” ministry in Nigeria Human Rights Groups Call for Week of Social Media Activism Against Witch-Hunts in Cross River State, Nigeria A group of… Read More
General news / 12 June 2013 Russia waves through two illiberal new laws, as Nigerian anti-gay bill hangs in the balance The Russian parliament has unanimously passed an anti-gay "propaganda" law today, condemned by human rights groups around the world as… Read More
General news / 28 March 2013 Death and humanist funerals in Nigeria Giving atheists religious funerals is a disservice that has been going on for some time. And now is the time… Read More
Members and partners / 15 February 2013 Humanists remember Eze Ebisike (1937-2013) Nigerian Humanist, and former chair of the Nigerian Humanist Movement (NHM), Eze Ebisike, died last week at the age of 75, a… Read More
Action Alert / 16 November 2012 Homosexuality and Africa: The new Archbishop of Canterbury must “broaden his horizons” The world is watching as three sub-Saharan African countries consider changes to their anti-homosexuality legislation. Anti-homosexuality laws in Nigeria, Uganda… Read More