27 January 2006 Call to bring the President of Iran to trial before the International Criminal Court IHEU and two other NGOs have issued a press release at the UN in Geneva, demanding that the Iranian President… Read More
Campaigns / 26 January 2006 NGOs speak at UN meeting on Racism In a strong joint statement delivered to an Intergovernmental Working Group at the UN in Geneva on 23 January, IHEU… Read More
Growth and Development / 25 January 2006 Women Parliamentarians: Rwanda Leads No country in the world has more women than men in its national parliament, the recently released Inter-Parliamentary Union survey… Read More
25 January 2006 Dance 4 Life In total contrast to the blinkered US government approach to AIDS prevention, a young Dutch organisation has launched an international… Read More
Campaigns / 20 January 2006 Diluted credibility: homeopathy = placebo The Lancet, the respected UK-based medical journal, has published its conclusions about homoeopathy after examining findings from 110 homoeopathy trials… Read More
Campaigns / 15 January 2006 Bioweapons Prevention Project The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and the 1925 Geneva Protocol comprehensively prohibit biological weapons but they make… Read More
Conferences / 5 January 2006 UN Bioethics Panel on Women’s Rights On Friday, January 27, 2006 a panel of leading bioethicists, physicians and activists will discuss women's reproductive and sexual rights… Read More
Humanists International News / 31 December 2005 New Year Message from IHEU President Roy Brown In his New Year message, IHEU President Roy Brown highlights 2005's successful World Humanist Congress and IHEU's increased focus on… Read More
Conferences / 31 December 2005 IHEU General Assembly 2006 The IHEU General Assembly 2006 will be held in New York City, USA, on Thursday 20th April 2006 (10.00 am… Read More
Campaigns / 31 December 2005 Shari’a Courts and Fatwas in India A number of recent news stories in India have reported on Shari'a courts and fatwas. The Indian Express of 19… Read More
Growth and Development / 30 December 2005 States must act to save hundreds of millions of abused children, UN report urges 14 December 2005 - Hundreds of millions of children suffer from severe exploitation, becoming virtually invisible to the world -… Read More