10 September 2008 Spinoza and secularism at the UN Quoting Spinoza in a statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva delivered jointly with the Association for World… Read More
4 September 2008 IHEU stands up for the primacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, Sixty years after the UDHR: threats to the universality of… Read More
11 August 2008 IHEU’s UN campaign highlighted in Canada IHEU's campaign for freedom of expression at the UN Human Rights Council has been highlighted by Macleans, the Canadian news… Read More
28 July 2008 UN rejects attempt to expel Jewish NGO. News has reached us that, following an appeal from IHEU, the UN Economic and Social Council has dismissed the complaint… Read More
Humanists International News / 27 June 2008 Support for IHEU’s work at the UN Human Rights Council Support for and interest in IHEU's work for freedom of expression at the UN has come from many commentators, following… Read More
23 June 2008 Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism… Read More
17 June 2008 Human Rights Council President: “We are on a slippery slope” It took one hour and twenty-five minutes for a three-minute joint statement by the Association for World Education with IHEU… Read More
17 June 2008 IHEU speaks out for rights of women In a statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council on 17 June 2008, IHEU has urged greater empowerment of… Read More
15 June 2008 World Association of Newspapers condemns UN Human Rights Council on freedom of expression The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum has condemned the UN Human Rights Council’s repeated efforts to… Read More
11 June 2008 United States to quit UN Human Rights Council The United States is to leave the UN Human Rights Council Read More
29 May 2008 Only 22 of UN Human Rights Council’s 47 seats are held by free countries Keith Porteous Wood writes: The stranglehold of oppressive countries over the United Nations Human Rights Council has slightly intensified as… Read More