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European Commission President Manuel Barroso and President of the European Parliament Hans Gert Pőttering hosted a lunch in Brussels on…

Julian Burnside, QC, barrister and Kate Durham, artist have been honoured for assisting asylum seekers redress infringements to their human…

Commenting on Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester's call on homosexuals to repent and "be changed", George Broadhead, secretary…

George Broadhead writes: The latest issue of G&LH is now available free at www.gayandlesbianhumanist.org

Update: the deadline for signing has passed and the bill did not become law [27 June 2009]. IHEU president, Sonja…

New Humanist reports that hardline Islamists were ejected from the home of British Humanism on Wednesday night [17 June 2009].…

20 years after Tiananmen Square, IHEU has criticized China's human rights record and urged the international community to consider again…

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the attached resolution on Preventable Maternal Mortality. The text of the speech given…

Caste discrimination “clealy falls within my mandate” claimed the newly-appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Racism Mr Mugai, speaking on 16…

On 16 June, during the general debate on racism at the Human Rights Council, the Pakistani delegate Muhammad Saeed Sarwar,…

In a travesty of democratic debate, only six non-governmental organizations were allowed to speak in the debate on the Sudan…