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On Saturday afternoon a gunman targeted a blasphemy seminar at a cafe in Copenhagen, Denmark. Despite significant security measures already…

The Co-President of the European Parliamentary Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance has called for greater recognition of the rights…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is today among the founding partners heading a new, unified campaign for the abolition of “blasphemy”…

The IHEU General Assembly 2015 will be held at the Unilab Bayanihan Center, 8008 Pioneer St., Kapitolyo, Pasig City, Philippines…

Humanist organizations have been among the chorus of human rights groups, activists, and governments internationally, calling for the release of persecuted…

It has been a bad time for freedom of expression the past two weeks. Last Friday, liberal Saudi writer Raif Badawi was…

It is reported that officials have carried out the first 50 lashes of a 1000-lashes sentence against Saudi liberal, Raif Badawi. The…

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…