Campaigns / 18 January 2011 IHEU representative Leo Igwe jailed and beaten for human rights work IHEU representative Leo Igwe has been imprisoned and beaten by police while rescuing two children accused of witchcraft. The incident,… Read More
Members and partners / 18 January 2011 British Humanists praise “victory for equality and liberty”; Christian B&B owners found guilty of discriminating against same-sex couple A landmark UK court judgment, which has found that Christian hotel owners had unlawfully discriminated on grounds of sexual orientation,… Read More
Members and partners / 29 December 2010 Humanists call for UK policy to reflect secular majority The gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has welcomed a new survey showing that a majority of Britons… Read More
Members and partners / 21 December 2010 Working together for secularism: A joint declaration by IHEU’s French member organizations The National Federation of Free Thought (Fédération nationale de la Libre Pensée - FNLP), the National League for Popular Education… Read More
Members and partners / 21 December 2010 Agir ensemble pour la laïcité: Déclaration commune d’associations françaises membres de l’IHEU L Fédération nationale de la Libre Pensée (FNLP), la Ligue de l’Enseignement et pour l’Éducation populaire (LDE), l’Union rationaliste (UR),… Read More
Members and partners / 20 December 2010 British Humanists criticize European ruling on abortion in Ireland The British Humanist Association (BHA) has reacted with disappointment to a European Court of Human Rights ruling on the abortion… Read More
Conferences / 23 November 2010 Conference on Apostasy, Sharia Law and Human Rights, 11 December 2010 To mark International Human Rights Day, the International Humanist and Ethical Union is co-sponsoring an all day conference on “Apostasy,… Read More
Action Alert / 18 November 2010 IHEU protests Palestinian atheist persecution The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is protesting the imprisonment of a Palestinian blogger for alleged atheism. Waleed Khalid… Read More
Campaigns / 12 November 2010 Ritual killing and human sacrifice in Africa Leo Igwe, IHEU’s representative for West and Southern Africa, is working to combat widespread human rights abuses caused by belief… Read More
Campaigns / 7 November 2010 Malawi Humanists campaign to free alleged witches In response to a campaign by Humanists, the government of Malawi has promised to review the cases of more than… Read More
Humanists International News / 20 October 2010 Erklärung über den Humanismus und Frieden Erklärung der Internationalen Humanistischen und Ethischen Union (IHEU, Weltdachverband Humanistischer Organisationen) anlässlich des Symposiums „Religionen und Weltfrieden. Zum Friedens- und… Read More