Human rights

Death threats from authority figures, over a single topless photograph of an activist named Amina, have inspired a global backlash…

Grants Announcement of the IHEU-HIVOS Humanist Network and Development programme for 2013.

European institutions have kept astonishingly silent to the worsening of the political situation in Hungary, Humanist groups have said today.…

  In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council, Tuesday, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) criticised the Organisation…

Speaking as a representative attached to the IHEU delegation at the Human Rights Council, Kacem El Ghazzali told how he…

Following pressure from our delegation, Iran was forced to back down from its statement yesterday that torture didn't happen in…

Humanists at the United Nations today called on the Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to regulate the activities…

There is a new wave of public moral outrage at crimes perpetrated against women, and we must embrace it –…

  Taking advantage of a legal loophole, the marriage papers of Nidal Darwish and Kholoud Succariyeh were approved by the Lebanese Ministry…

Humanists at the UN in Geneva have today called for the complete abolition of blasphemy laws as incompatible with "one of…

The UK's House of Lords has voted to bring caste discrimination within the scope of equality legislation, potentially strengthening protections…