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Membership blog / 30 October 2025 / Contributor

The article outlines proposed reforms to Norway’s faith and lifestance funding system, which has become unsustainable as Church of Norway…

Advocacy News / 25 March 2025

Humanists International and the Norwegian Humanist Association have delivered a statement at the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights…

Advocacy Statement / 2025 / Norway / UN Human Rights Council / Universal Periodic Review /

ORAL STATEMENT Humanists International UN Human Rights Council, 58th session (24 February–4 April 2025) UPR Outcome of Norway Speaker: Leon…

General news / 24 April 2024

Norwegian Humanist Association achieves record membership of 150,000.

Members and partners / 9 January 2023

The Norwegian government awarded political activist and comedian Shabana Rehman with a state-sponsored humanist funeral.

Casework blog / 21 October 2021 / Seif Zakaria

An interview with a Syrian atheist in the closet.

Casework blog / 5 July 2021 / Giovanni Gaetani

Joseph Moradi is an Afghan atheist and humanist who was finally granted asylum in Norway in January 2021 after a…

Humanists At Risk / 25 February 2021

The granting of asylum of Afghan humanist Josef Moradi is granted asylum in Norway coincides with changes in guidance

Members and partners / 6 November 2020

Founded in 1956, the Norwegian Humanist Association (Human-Etisk Forbund in Norwegian) has today 100,000 members in the country.

Advocacy Statement / 2019 / Norway / UN Human Rights Council / Item 6: Universal Periodic Review /

International Humanist and Ethical Union 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (9th – 27th September 2019) Universal Periodic…

Advocacy News / 3 October 2019

Norway's constitutional assertions of national Christian values and the privileged position of the church "send a signal of exclusion", humanists…