Campaigns / 11 January 2007 Churches’ attempt to revoke anti-discrimination laws fails IHEU member organization Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association has welcomed the vote in the House of Lords, which declined to… Read More
Campaigns / 11 December 2006 Appeal of the French Estates General for Secularism On the initiative of IHEU member organization Libre Pensée, a meeting of the Estates General for Secularism was convened in… Read More
Campaigns / 29 November 2006 Europe – Christian or Secular? In an important speech to the European Parliament Working Group on Separation of Religion and Politics on 28th November, David… Read More
Campaigns / 27 November 2006 Ana Lita to speak on bioethics and religion Ana Lita, Director of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics, is to speak to New York City Atheists on Thursday, 30… Read More
Campaigns / 4 October 2006 The Redeker affair IHEU member organization Libre Pensée has condemned recent death threats for “blasphemy” against Robert Redeker as a blatant attempt at… Read More
Campaigns / 25 September 2006 Hezbollah attacks IHEU speaker On 22 September 2006, the new Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper, Al-Akhbar launched a scurrilous attack on Kamal el Batal, one of… Read More
Campaigns / 19 September 2006 Hezbollah condemned at UN NGO conference IHEU and the Association for World Education, in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, hosted a seminar at the UN… Read More
Campaigns / 7 September 2006 Bangladesh: secular intellectuals terrorised by Islamic fundamentalists Islami Chattra Shibir, the militant student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, a coalition partner in the Bangladesh government, has issued death threats… Read More
Campaigns / 28 July 2006 Council of Europe backs free speech The Council of Europe has come down on the side of free expression after it rejected calls from religious groups… Read More
Campaigns / 10 April 2006 We are not afraid IHEU president Roy Brown was one of the speakers on 6 April at a seminar in Paris entitled "Nous n'avons… Read More
Campaigns / 9 April 2006 Free Inquiry magazine defends freedom of expression The decision by Borders booksellers to remove from its shelves the April edition of Free Inquiry, which carried four of… Read More