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Advocacy News / 15 March 2016

Jailed and lashed for atheism – At UN, IHEU highlights Saudi and Egypt’s treatment of those with no religion

Today at the United Nations Human Rights Council, director of advocacy for the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), Elizabeth…

Campaigns / 27 November 2015

Death for “apostasy” must not stand! Free Ashraf Fayadh

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) joins around 60 human rights organisations internationally, protesting the death sentence handed down last…

Advocacy Statement / 2015 / Nigeria / UN Human Rights Council / Item 8: Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action /

Opposition to LGBTI rights by OIC States

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union United Nations Human Rights Council, 29th Session (15th June – 3rd July 2015)…

17 March 2015

IHEU to UN: We must protect the people who promote and defend the right to free expression

We need the right to speak freely and critically about religion and related topics, and it is also vital that we protect those…

General news / 16 March 2015

At UN, IHEU raises issue of hate campaigns against those with no religion

In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has raised concerns…

Campaigns / 16 January 2015

“Raif Badawi is Charlie”

Humanist organizations have been among the chorus of human rights groups, activists, and governments internationally, calling for the release of persecuted…

Campaigns / 9 January 2015

IHEU: “call it what it is — Saudi Arabia’s flogging of Raif Badawi is barbarity and torture, plain and simple”

It is reported that officials have carried out the first 50 lashes of a 1000-lashes sentence against Saudi liberal, Raif Badawi. The…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Kuwait / UN Human Rights Council / Item 9: Follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action /

Slavery and the Durban Declaration

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 27th Session (8th – 26th September 2014) General Debate, Item 9: Racism, racial…

Campaigns / 17 September 2014

ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence

Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Mauritania / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

Imprisoned for blasphemy and apostasy: two cases

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) Agenda Item 4: General Debate IMPRISONED…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Kuwait / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

The use of ‘offence’ in silencing online journalists

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) Panel Discussion on the Safety of…

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