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Following yesterday’s horrific attacks, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) in solidarity with the campaign by Index on Censorship,…

Twelve people including two police officers, three cartoonists, and seven journalists have been killed today, with at least 5 other victims in critical…

A writer in Mauritania has been sentenced to death for “apostasy”, putting the crime of leaving Islam on a par with the country’s…

Around 50 participants came for the West African Conference under the theme “African Youth for science and reason”. The first…

Non-religious people are being targeted by “hate campaigns” in countries around the world, as a distinct minority group, the latest…

Arabs Without God is the first book to look at atheism in the contemporary Middle East. It examines why a…

I will continue working for humanism… more determined than ever. These are the words of Kato Mukasa, following a fourth attack in…

Anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid was arrested on 10 November in Mauritania. The award-winning human rights campaigner has worked with…

On Thursday the Lahore High Court upheld a 2010 death sentence for Asia Bibi, the woman at the centre of…

This summer, IHEU reported on the case of an atheist, Mubarak Bala, detained in a psychiatric ward because he was an…

There is slavery, including descent-based slavery, forced labour, and trafficking, endemic in many states in south and western Asia, and…