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General news / 7 April 2016

Tutul: the Survivor – An interview with the target of a Bangladesh machete attack

Following the murder of four atheist bloggers in Bangladesh throughout 2015, on October 31 two secular publishers were hit in a coordinated attack. At Jagriti…

6 April 2016

Atheist student Nazimuddin Samad killed in Bangladesh

A Masters student, Nazimuddin Samad (28), has been killed in Old Dhaka, earlier tonight by suspected Islamist militants chanting “Allahu Akbar” as they…

Advocacy Statement / 2016 / India / UN Human Rights Council / Item 9: Follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action /

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…

Advocacy News / 21 March 2016

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…

General news / 26 February 2016

Europe stands with Bangladeshi atheists at Solidarity Book Fair in The Hague

Secular bloggers who fled Bangladesh in fear for their lives, and two survivors of machete attacks, joined human rights organizations at the…

Advocacy Statement / 2015 / Bangladesh / UN Human Rights Council /

Girl’s right to education

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 29th Session (15th June – 3rd July 2015) Panel discussion on realizing the…

General news / 31 October 2015

Coordinated machete attack on publishers of secular authors in Bangladesh

In what now appears to be a coordinated attack, at least one person has been killed and three people have…

Campaigns / 7 October 2015

Statement on terrorism conviction against Mumtaz Qadri

The Pakistan Supreme Court has today upheld a terrorism conviction against Mumtaz Qadri, thus restoring the death penalty against him. Mumtaz…

Members and partners / 15 September 2015

Press release from SOCH Nepal: a major victory for secularism in Nepal.

15th September, 2015 Press Release Society for Humanism (SOCH) Nepal thanks the Constitution Assembly of Nepal for endorsing a secular…

General news / 18 August 2015

Huge alliance protests government response to Bangladesh blogger murders

Bloggers, free speech campaigners, humanist associations, religious and ex-Muslim groups, all unite to protest Bangladeshi blogger murders Following a string…

Humanists International News / 18 August 2015

Joint open letter to Prime Minister and President of Bangladesh

To Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President Abdul Hamid, We, concerned members of the blogging and activist community of Bangladesh…

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