Policy / 1974 / Amsterdam, Netherlands / World Humanist Congress / Pending Review Beneficient voluntary euthanasia We, the 6th IHEU Congress, declare our support on ethical grounds for beneficent voluntary euthanasia. We believe that reflective ethical… Read More
Policy / 1999 / Mumbai, India / World Humanist Congress / Pending Review Euthanasia The 14th World Congress of the IHEU supports a change to the law in every country. This law would allow… Read More
Policy / 2014 / Oxford, United Kingdom / World Humanist Congress / Current The Oxford Declaration on Freedom of Thought and Expression The 2014 World Humanist Congress, gathered in Oxford, UK, on 8-10 August 2014, adopted the following declaration on freedom of… Read More
Policy / 1999 / Mumbai, India / General Assembly / Pending Review Humanists and Euthanasia The 14th Congress of the IHEU supports a change of the law with suitable safeguards to allow a competent person,… Read More
Policy / 1974 / Board of Directors / Pending Review The Vatican and family planning This spring the Vatican has started a campaign to propagate its viewpoint on birth control. Thus it takes overt stand… Read More
Policy / 1978 / London, United Kingdom / World Humanist Congress / Pending Review Limiting population growth A major cause of oppression and rigidity of human organisation, of the exhaustion of valuable mineral resources and of fossil… Read More
Policy / 1952 / Amsterdam, Netherlands / World Humanist Congress / Pending Review Family planning The congress recognising the world-wide population problem as a common concern of mankind and of continuing importance to humanist and… Read More
Policy / 1970 / Board of Directors / Pending Review Population control, family planning and abortion The International Humanist & Ethical Union views with alarm the continuing increase in world population and recognises this as one… Read More
Policy / 1988 / Buffalo, United States of America / World Humanist Congress / Pending Review Nuclear test banning We, participants of the Tenth Humanist World Congress of the International Humanist & Ethical Union, who have assembled at Buffalo,… Read More
