International bodies

One of the most important innovations of the Human Rights Council in 2006 was the creation of a process under…

Legal and diplomatic condemnations of Iran by UN Member States In March 2010, the Federal Court of Switzerland, the country’s…

Geneva, March 16, 2010 -- The Vatican’s record on child abuse was criticized today at the United Nations Human Rights…

In a joint statement with two other NGOs at the UN Human Rights Council on 12 March, IHEU exposed the…

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…