International bodies

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),…

An Egyptian Christian, Mr Maher El-Gowhary who faces a call by a leading Muslim cleric for Muslims to kill him,…

Speaking in the plenary debate at the Human Rights Council on 30 September on the Rights of Women, IHEU representative…

The London newspaper The Guardian has reported the Vatican's extraordinary response to IHEU criticism, lashing out "at criticism over its…

In a brave attempt at the Human Rights Council to re-establish their credentials as a team player on the world…