Slavery in Mauritania and the protection of human rights defenders
ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) General Debate, item 2/3: Report of…
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Contemporary forms of slavery
ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 27th Session (8th – 26th September 2014) Interactive Dialogue with SR on Contemporary…
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Anti-slavery campaigner and IHEU partner faces political charges in Mauritania
Anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid was arrested on 10 November in Mauritania. The award-winning human rights campaigner has worked with…
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Atheist detained as a psychiatric patient still needs your help
This summer, IHEU reported on the case of an atheist, Mubarak Bala, detained in a psychiatric ward because he was an…
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Humanists and witchcraft abuse campaigners sued by Nigerian “witch hunter” pastor in UK courts
The British Humanist Association and Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN), are being sued by the wealthy evangelical preacher…
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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…
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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…
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Mubarak Bala is free
WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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