Punishment and torture

Humanists International protests abortion laws under which women are being jailed after suffering miscarriages

"I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in Wahhabism. I believe women are equal to men. I believe in…

The plight of a 20-year-old woman from Saudi Arabia, intending to seek asylum in Australia, has gone viral under the…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has joined 31 NGOs in calling on Mauritania to release anti-slavery blogger, Mohamed…

Join our urgent call for the Pakistan authorities to return Gulalai’s passport and respect her right to travel! On the…

Humanists have urged the UN Human Rights Council to recognise the individual cultural rights of humanists and freethinkers across the…

At the United Nations today, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) called on Botswana to abolish the death penalty.…

Today on the floor of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a group of ten NGOs jointly called on Mauritania…

The death sentence will be mandatory for “apostasy” and “blasphemy”-related crimes in Mauritania, under a new law passed by the…

A prominent Egyptian atheist YouTuber, who has been in hiding from “insult to religion” charges since 2015, has apparently disappeared after…