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  European Humanist Youth Days registrations are open! It’s ready – the venue, hotel rooms, end party hall, most of…

IHEYO has had a very busy year. Its network has continued to grow and only shows signs of further expansion.…

The IHEU General Assembly 2016 took place Sunday 22 May, at the Excelsior Hotel, just outside Valletta, Malta. President Andrew…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and the European Humanist Federation (EHF) held their respective General Assemblies in Valletta…

President of the IHEU, Andrew Copson, welcomed delegates to the IHEU General Assembly in Malta today (Sunday 22 May). The prepared…

Update, 10 February 2017: Please note that this event has been cancelled. “Facing challenges to the separation of church and…

Rumana Hashem asks how the horrors of mob killing — including many unreported incidents — is destroying the social fabric of…

Two LGBT activists have been hacked to death at a house in Kalabagan, Dhaka. Xulhaz Mannan was editor of the LGBT magazine Roopbaan and…

Early this morning (Saturday 23 April) a university lecturer was hacked to death in Bangladesh. Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique was a teacher…

An appeals court in Mauritania yesterday upheld a death sentence handed down to Mohamed Cheikh Ould M’kheitir in December 2014 for “apostasy”. The International…

A young Mauritanian writer, Mohamed Cheikh Ould M’kheitir, sentenced to death for “apostasy” in 2014, will have his appeal heard later…