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On 30 July, as part of the programme of Europride 2008, the Swedish Humanist Association organised two very successful events.…

Untouchability persists in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Japan and Nigeria. Nearly 250 million persons are directly affected…

Keith Porteous Wood writes: The stranglehold of oppressive countries over the United Nations Human Rights Council has slightly intensified as…

 The issue of eminent Bangladeshi freethinker and progressive writer Taslima Nasreen’s stay in India is gathering momentum. This truly depicts…

Since its independence in 1947, Pakistan has lived under firm control of military and civil burocracy. People have no say…

Bangladeshi writer-in-exile Taslima Nasreen was attacked at the Hyderabad Press Club today (Babu Gogineni reports), where she was launching the…

The United Nations Human Rights Council has published two IHEU submissions on Dalit rights and child marriage: Dalits, the Caste…

In collaboration with the World Population Foundation, IHEU has launched a joint campaign against the horror of child marriage, a…

Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948…

IHEU extends its congratulations to Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank, winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Mohammed Yunus…

Update: Applications for 2006 funding are now closed.