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Today at the United Nations, the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s (IHEU) director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, read out a poem that…

A greeting from the new president of IHEYO, Marieke Prien, for International Humanist Day, 21 June 2016 For me it is…

World Humanist Day is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the contribution that humanism and humanists have made to the…

“Religious doctrine and the right to freedom of religion or belief should never be put before the rights of women…

Humanists around the world have reacted with sadness and renewed determination in the face of the Orlando LGBTI nightclub massacre.…

Rumana Hashem asks how the horrors of mob killing — including many unreported incidents — is destroying the social fabric of…

Two LGBT activists have been hacked to death at a house in Kalabagan, Dhaka. Xulhaz Mannan was editor of the LGBT magazine Roopbaan and…

Early this morning (Saturday 23 April) a university lecturer was hacked to death in Bangladesh. Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique was a teacher…

An appeals court in Mauritania yesterday upheld a death sentence handed down to Mohamed Cheikh Ould M’kheitir in December 2014 for “apostasy”. The International…

A young Mauritanian writer, Mohamed Cheikh Ould M’kheitir, sentenced to death for “apostasy” in 2014, will have his appeal heard later…

Following the murder of four atheist bloggers in Bangladesh throughout 2015, on October 31 two secular publishers were hit in a coordinated attack. At Jagriti…