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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mubarak Bala is free
WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against…
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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,…
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#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.…
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“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…
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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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IHEU laments Human Rights Council member states who imprison “blasphemers”
Several states in which convicted ‘blasphemers’ are currently in jail are also current members of the Human Rights Council. This…
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