International bodies

The theme for this year’s World Health Day—on April 7, 2011—was “Combat Drug Resistance”. It raised the alarm about the…

12 April 2011 Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has called on the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) to…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has welcomed the Council of Europe’s move to include Humanist organizations in international…

A. C. Grayling, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) representative to the UN Human Rights Council, has been appointed the…

The World Day of Social Justice, observed this year on Feb. 20, is an urgent call for all countries to…

In October 2010, the UN Human Rights Council working group on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of…

In a morning-long debate on traditional values at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday 22 March 2011, the Pakistani delegate,…

In what looks like a major climb down on the part of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) this…

The friends of Mauritania, mostly Islamic states, who spoke in an hour-long debate in the Human Rights Council Friday, 18…

With the recent discovery of new evidence that the Vatican ordered Catholic bishops not to cooperate with the civil authorities…