Advocacy News / 24 June 2025 Humanists spotlight role of religion and patriarchy in gender-based violence during UN panel Humanists International has delivered a statement during the annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women at the 59th… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2025 / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights / Gender-based violence in conflict, post-conflict, and humanitarian settings ORAL STATEMENT Humanists International UN Human Rights Council, 59th session (16th June – 9 July 2025) Annual full-day discussion on… Read More
Advocacy News / 27 March 2025 Humanists urge Colombia to uphold secularism and indigenous rights Speaking at the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Fundación Oniros Philosophie, Colombia, and Humanists International have called… Read More
Advocacy News / 23 September 2024 At UN, Humanists International calls for the preservation of democracy in Venezuela At the 57th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Humanists International have condemned Venezuela’s crackdown on activists and called for… Read More
Advocacy News / 17 July 2024 At UN, Humanists call attention to war crimes in Myanmar At the 56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Humanists International and Burmese Atheists have delivered a statement of… Read More
Members and partners / 16 March 2022 Belgian Humanist convoy reaches Ukraine border with humanitarian aid Humanists from Belgium have formed a convoy of vehicles to transport aid to refugees on the Polish border with Ukraine. Read More
Advocacy News / 16 August 2021 Urgent international action needed to mitigate humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan has triggered a humanitarian crisis as progressive activists hide in fear. Read More
21 September 2017 Humanists for International Day of Peace To mark the International Day of Peace 2017, we asked humanist thought leaders from around the world for their views… Read More
General news / 3 August 2016 Where does humanism stand at a time of crisis? Many people today feel the world is backsliding politically and that terror is escalating. President of the IHEU, Andrew Copson, asks… Read More
Campaigns / 17 September 2014 ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,… Read More
General news / 24 July 2014 IHEU statement on Israel-Palestine conflict The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is deeply pained by the resumption of conflict, after a period of relative… Read More