New Year’s Eve resolutions: Respect the Bodily Autonomy of Western Women, Migrants and Refugees
Gea Meijers, YouthSpeak March While the coming of the New Year is meant to be a happy, colorful, warm celebration,…
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Psychiatric detention and charges against atheist show “Soviet era abuse of psychiatry, apparently alive and well in Russia today”
An atheist in Russia, Viktor Krasnov (38) faces the threat of jail time for saying online that, “There is no god”…
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Atheists in Kenya must be officially recognised
An atheist group in Kenya has been denied formal registration as a recognised association on the grounds that “The Registrar has reasonable cause to…
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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…
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From Religion to Doubt: My Experience in the World of the God People
[:en]Namyalo Viola, YouthSpeak February I grew up in a Christian Orphanage where praying was the most important thing, we couldn’t survive…
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Creationism is dead in Iceland
0.0% of Icelanders aged 25 or younger believe that “God” created the world, according to a new poll. The finding…
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IHEU’s Freedom of Thought Report 2015… “Why should we pamper Saudi Arabia for oil?”
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) produces and publishes the annual Freedom of Thought Report, a flagship survey on the legal status and human rights…
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A Call for Legalisation of Abortion in Uganda
By Kato Mukasa This paper was first presented at the Open Talk Debate on 10 October, 2015, at Fair Way Hotel,…
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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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A Black South African Woman’s Journey to Atheism
Leo Igwe interviews Nosipho, on how she lost her Christian faith and embraced atheism South Africa is one of the least…
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‘Laïcité’ is not an opinion; it is the freedom to have one
Laetitia Gaspar examines the principles of French secularism (Laïcité), its history, the challenges it faces, and the implications it has today. This article first appeared…
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