3 January 2008 Universality of Human Rights under attack at the UN The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) representing the 56 Islamic States renewed its attack on the Universality of Human… Read More
27 December 2007 Primacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights IHEU and the World Council for Progressive Judaism have written to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights asking for a… Read More
Humanists International News / 24 December 2007 Intersecting Human Rights Crises: Organ Transplantation and Organ Trafficking Ana Lita, Director of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics, reports on the panel discussion held in New York City by… Read More
29 November 2007 High Commissioner for Human Rights replies to IHEU On 2nd November, IHEU together with three other NGOs wrote to Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and… Read More
Conferences / 6 November 2007 Intersecting Human Rights Crises: Organ Transplantation and Organ Trafficking IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics in NYC co-sponsored by The UN Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the… Read More
6 November 2007 Saving the credibility of the UN Human Rights Council IHEU has endorsed a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly, signed by over 20 NGOs, in an attempt to… Read More
16 September 2007 NGOs gagged again at UN Human Rights Council IHEU was prevented from speaking this week following the Special Rapporteur on Racism, Doudou Diene's report on "Islamophobia". Only four… Read More
15 September 2007 IHEU speaks out on freedom of religion and freedom of expression at the UN Human Rights Council In the "interactive dialogue" following a presentation on Freedom of Religion or Belief by Special Rapporteur, Asma Jahangir, IHEU defended… Read More
Campaigns / 2 July 2007 Council of Europe rejects report calling creationism “dangerous” and a “threat to human rights” The European Council Committee on Culture, Science and Education has rejected a draft report saying that “creationism” and its biblically… Read More
2 July 2007 A Catastrophe for Human Rights Even in his worst nightmares former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan could hardly have dreamed when he called for the… Read More
Campaigns / 23 April 2007 Child Marriage: A Violation of Human Rights In collaboration with the World Population Foundation, IHEU has launched a joint campaign against the horror of child marriage, a… Read More