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Campaigns / 17 September 2014

ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence

Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,…

Action Alert / 15 September 2014

Act now to #FreeRaif: Calling for freedom gets you 10 Years, 1000 lashes, in Saudi Arabia

Time is running out for a young activist who called for greater freedom, and now faces devastating corporal punishment and a decade…

Conferences / 12 August 2014

Wole Soyinka’s International Humanist Award acceptance speech – full text

Nobel Laureate and staunch defender of freedom and humanism, Wole Soyinka, joined Pakistani women’s rights activist, Gulalai Ismail, in being…

Conferences / 12 August 2014

Oxford Declaration on Freedom of Thought and Expression

The delegates at World Humanist Congress assented on 10th August and the IHEU General Assembly approved on 11th August the Oxford…

Philosopher and humanist AC Grayling vies the opening plenary to an audience of 1000 at World Humanist Congress 2014

Conferences / 8 August 2014

World Humanist Congress has begun in Oxford, UK

Hosted by International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) member organization, the British Humanist Association, the World Humanist Congress 2014 is…

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

Imprisoned for blasphemy and apostasy: two cases

ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) Agenda Item 4: General Debate IMPRISONED…

Campaigns / 3 July 2014

Mubarak Bala is free

WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against…

Campaigns / 24 June 2014

Nigerian man detained on psychiatric ward for “atheism”

A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria,…

Action Alert / 10 June 2014

#TwitterTheocracy campaign after social network blocks “blasphemy” in Pakistan

Twitter recently agreed to block “blasphemous tweets” in Pakistan, thus becoming complicit in suppressing free speech, and in aiding Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.…

General news / 14 May 2014

“Humanism and secularism” are threat to Islam and the state, says Malaysian prime minister

The Prime Minister of Malaysia has labelled “humanism and secularism as well as liberalism” a dangerous threat to Islam and the state. He is…

2 April 2014

Saudi Arabia’s new law defines atheism as “terrorism”, bans all criticism of government

Humanist and secular organizations, as well as civil liberties and human rights groups around the world, have responded with outrage…

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