General news / 19 September 2014 New Sharia law, harsh penalties, worse to come: Brunei’s human rights review Earlier this year, Brunei started the process of introducing Sharia law into its penal code. The new Penal Code contains… Read More
General news / 19 September 2014 Church-state entanglement and pushing religious values: Norway’s human rights review In association with its member organisation, the Norwegian Humanist Association, Human-Etisk Forbund (NHA), the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has… Read More
General news / 19 September 2014 29,000,000 human beings: IHEU highlights widespread domestic and sexual slavery There are more than 29 million people living in slavery across the world. From Sudan to Pakistan, there are people… Read More
Campaigns / 17 September 2014 ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,… Read More
Action Alert / 15 September 2014 Act now to #FreeRaif: Calling for freedom gets you 10 Years, 1000 lashes, in Saudi Arabia Time is running out for a young activist who called for greater freedom, and now faces devastating corporal punishment and a decade… Read More
General news / 1 September 2014 Humanists and witchcraft abuse campaigners sued by Nigerian “witch hunter” pastor in UK courts The British Humanist Association and Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN), are being sued by the wealthy evangelical preacher… Read More
Conferences / 12 August 2014 Wole Soyinka’s International Humanist Award acceptance speech – full text Nobel Laureate and staunch defender of freedom and humanism, Wole Soyinka, joined Pakistani women’s rights activist, Gulalai Ismail, in being… Read More
Conferences / 12 August 2014 Oxford Declaration on Freedom of Thought and Expression The delegates at World Humanist Congress assented on 10th August and the IHEU General Assembly approved on 11th August the Oxford… Read More
Young Humanists International / 8 August 2014 Results of our election at General Assembly 2014 Aug 9th 2014: IHEYO today held our election of committee members. Here are the results: President: Nicola Young Jackson Secretary: Gulalai Ismail… Read More
Conferences / 8 August 2014 IHEU president welcomes delegates at World Humanist Congress Sonja Eggerickx, the president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), spoke a short time ago at the plenary of… Read More
Conferences / 8 August 2014 World Humanist Congress has begun in Oxford, UK Hosted by International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) member organization, the British Humanist Association, the World Humanist Congress 2014 is… Read More