News from India: Honoured killings
*Honoured killing are an illegitimate justification to save a fragile caste structure?* Kill to Honour the caste system By Vidya…
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Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism…
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Punjab bans rationalist literature
In a shocking affront to freedom of expression, the Government of Punjab, India, has banned four rationalist books and threatened…
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IHEU debates organized religion at Durham University
At a debate on the motion, "This House has no faith in organized religion", IHEU Vice President Jack Jeffery supported…
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Council of Europe backs separation of religion and state
Following discussions to which IHEU representatives contributed, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has strongly supported the separation…
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Is the Council of Europe really impartial on religion?
On the eve of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) debate on intercultural and interreligious dialogue, IPPFEN*…
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Russian Humanist Society represents IHEU at conference in Russia
Despite difficulties put in their way by the Russian security services, Gennady Shevelev and M. M. Bogoslovsky of IHEU member…
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IHEU defends separation of religion and state at the Council of Europe
IHEU was represented at a recent conference organized by the Council of Europe, "The Religious Dimension in intercultural Dialogue". IHEU…
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Scandal in “God’s Own Country”
In the third of his new series of articles "The Human Angle", Babu Gogineni questions the popular image of Kerala…
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Open letter to Bangladesh PM
Sir, We address you this open letter, alarmed at the treatment of our fellow humanist and defender of human rights…
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