World Humanist Congress 2020: speakers announced – and more to come!
Five months to go to 2020 World Humanist Congress in Miami from 6 to 9 August!
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Cautious welcome for new US-led International Religious Freedom Alliance
The United States Government has announced the formation of a new partnership of 27 governments to promote freedom of religion…
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Almost half of US states discriminate on grounds of religion or belief, finds new report
The report, by American Atheists, finds only ten states have strong protections for freedom of religion or belief.
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BREAKING: Persecuted humanist, Gulalai Ismail, safe in United States
Humanists International is able to confirm officially that Gulalai Ismail is now safe and on track to get asylum in…
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International meeting in Washington DC to promote freedom of belief
Humanists International will participate in a high-level international conference on freedom of religion or belief.
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Arguments opposing the universality human rights on the basis religious specificities
ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 37th Session (27th February – 23rd March 2018) General…
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“Extremism must be met by swift and humane opposition”: statement on Charlottesville rally
On Saturday afternoon, the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, became the scene of a rally by white supremacists, billed as “Unite…
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From the Americas: University of Missouri Protests
Anya Overmann and Julia Julstrom-Agoyo report on an extraordinary student-led protest in response to perceived inaction after a series of racist incidents on…
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Police brutality and racism in the United States of America
ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union United Nations Human Rights Council, 29th Session (15th June – 3rd July 2015)…
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Police brutality and racism in American criminal justice system highlighted by IHEU
In the wake of the white supremacist killing of nine African-Americans in Charleston, and the fatal shootings of four unarmed…
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Avijit Roy, by his daughter: “everyone… share his story” #WordsCannotBeKilled
Following the murder,Thursday, of Avijit Roy, US-based writer and a moral leader of secularist and freethought activists in Bangladesh, his elderly father…
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