Human rights

The Danish Free Press Society has awarded its newly-instituted Free Press Prize to the Norwegian-Pakistani comedienne and satirist Shabana Rehman…

The weekend of 3-5 February, the EC had an official meeting concerning current and future projects for IHEYO. It was…

World Summit Commits to Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015 The largest ever gathering of world leaders resolved in…

The Nigerian Humanist Movement has condemned a recent move by the Nigerian government to ban same-sex marriages. On January 18,…

In a strong joint statement delivered to an Intergovernmental Working Group at the UN in Geneva on 23 January, IHEU…

No country in the world has more women than men in its national parliament, the recently released Inter-Parliamentary Union survey…

In total contrast to the blinkered US government approach to AIDS prevention, a young Dutch organisation has launched an international…

On Friday, January 27, 2006 a panel of leading bioethicists, physicians and activists will discuss women's reproductive and sexual rights…

A number of recent news stories in India have reported on Shari'a courts and fatwas. The Indian Express of 19…

14 December 2005 - Hundreds of millions of children suffer from severe exploitation, becoming virtually invisible to the world -…

See http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages. The Declaration is the statement of fundamental…