IHEU attacks “traditional values” which undermine human rights
In a morning-long debate on traditional values at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday 22 March 2011, the Pakistani delegate,…
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Conference on Apostasy, Sharia Law and Human Rights, 11 December 2010
To mark International Human Rights Day, the International Humanist and Ethical Union is co-sponsoring an all day conference on “Apostasy,…
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IHEU and NSS propose work programme to European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
In a remarkable document, IHEU and its member organization the National Secular Society have proposed a wide-ranging list of modern-day…
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Women Rights are Human Rights
The word ‘freedom’ is not as gender neutral as many are making us to believe for in today’s patriachial world…
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Human Rights Council Resolution “Combating Defamation of Religion”
More than 200 civil society organizations from 46 countries, including Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Secular, Humanist and Atheist groups, have endorsed…
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Nobel laureates condemn non-democratic countries for human rights abuses
An audience of nearly 1000 – diplomats, NGO representatives, academics and students – descended on the General Assembly Hall at…
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Project of the month – Human Rights Day
Human Rights Human Rights day is celebrated to promote the universal human right: to live and to do so peacefully.…
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News around the world – Human Rights violation
Revivalism of religious rights is a challenge to democratic secular constitution By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Immediately after the Delhi…
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EU Fundamental Rights Agency interim panel
Keith Porteous Wood is one of the interim panel of nine to serve as a sounding board when the Fundamental…
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AWE addresses human rights violations experienced by women
In an oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council, the Association for World Education has supported IHEU in calling…
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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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