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Advocacy News / 19 June 2015

End violence against women and comply with your duties on abortion, IHEU says to African states at UN

During an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women at the UN Human Rights Council, the International…

Humanists International News / 16 June 2015

IHEU advertises for a Chief Executive

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has today opened applications for a new Chief Executive role. At the fore…

General news / 18 March 2015

Bardo Museum terror “another atrocity against human life, culture and democracy”

As many as 19 victims have been killed in a terror attack at the Bardo Museum, next to the parliament building in…

General news / 28 February 2015

Avijit Roy, by his daughter: “everyone… share his story” #‎WordsCannotBeKilled

Following the murder,Thursday, of Avijit Roy, US-based writer and a moral leader of secularist and freethought activists in Bangladesh, his elderly father…

Action Alert / 30 January 2015

End Blasphemy Laws – a new campaign

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is today among the founding partners heading a new, unified campaign for the abolition of “blasphemy”…

General news / 16 January 2015

“Do not punch your critics.” Humanists defend free speech under attack

It has been a bad time for freedom of expression the past two weeks. Last Friday, liberal Saudi writer Raif Badawi was…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Nigeria / UN Human Rights Council / Item 6: Universal Periodic Review /

UPR statement on Nigeria (2014)

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) UPR:…

Campaigns / 25 November 2014

After attack on humanist leader, take a stand!

I will continue working for humanism… more determined than ever. These are the words of Kato Mukasa, following a fourth attack in…

Advocacy Statement / 2014 / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

SRHR and discrimination

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) Interactive Dialogue with WG on Discrimination…

Campaigns / 18 November 2014

Anti-slavery campaigner and IHEU partner faces political charges in Mauritania

Anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid was arrested on 10 November in Mauritania. The award-winning human rights campaigner has worked with…

Young Humanists International / 31 July 2014

Here is Why Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Law is Wink in the Dark

By Kato Mukasa Nothing has given Uganda so much International publicity than the passing of the Anti Homosexuality Bill by…

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