Statement by IHEU following the 36th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO
Founded in the same year as UNESCO, by Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)…
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From the UN: Population, Women and Resources
This week the world’s population officially reached seven billion people. Yet United Nations (UN) projections now suggest that the world’s…
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From the United Nations: World Malaria Day 2011
Malaria has been a human scourge for thousands of years. One of the United Nations major health goals is to…
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IHEU pleads for equality for all under the law
According to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, European policies of multiculturalism have “utterly failed”. Certainly, when intolerance and discrimination are…
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The Oslo Declaration on Peace
The 2011 World Humanist Congress, gathered in Oslo, Norway, on 12-14 August 2011, adopted the following declaration on peace:
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Council of Europe moves to make Humanists equal with religions
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has welcomed the Council of Europe’s move to include Humanist organizations in international…
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Don’t mention the caste system!
In October 2010, the UN Human Rights Council working group on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of…
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IHEU criticizes Mauritania over slavery and the death penalty for homosexuals
The friends of Mauritania, mostly Islamic states, who spoke in an hour-long debate in the Human Rights Council Friday, 18…
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From the UN: Freedom of Information
The murder of journalists in Russia, the jailing of bloggers in China, the onslaught against independent media in Iran, and…
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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…
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IHEU silenced at UN for attempting to question the role of Islam in the persistence of slavery
It was just three years ago that the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour said "there can be no taboos…
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