International bodies

IHEU has spoken out at the United Nations against the harassment of its International Representative Leo Igwe in Nigeria, and…

UNESCO has recently published a series of reports on education[1] for the year 2010. All reports warn: Education is at…

The appalling lack of human rights in even the most liberal of Islamic States was highlighted this week when Qatar…

Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chances of illness…

Outer space has become a global commons. Around a thousand operational satellites, launched from more than forty countries, are now…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has joined an appeal to the UN to help the situation of Christians…

Since the 1980s, advocates for children have increasingly agreed that children need rights protected by international law. Charity is not…

Joseph Stiglitz put it well: "What you measure affects what you do…if you don’t measure the right thing you don’t…

The IHEU policy paper, Speaking Freely About Religion: Religious Freedom, Defamation and Blasphemy, is available for download at the bottom…

UN Blasphemy Law Would Make Religious Disagreements a Crime The United Nations is in danger of creating a global blasphemy…

On 22 September, speaking in the plenary of the UN Human Rights Council, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU),…