General news / 10 December 2015 Freedom of Thought Report 2015 Today the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is launching the Freedom of Thought Report 2015 at the European Parliament in… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2015 / Iraq / UN Human Rights Council / Item 2: Annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights / Silence of Human Rights Council on ISIS crimes ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 30th Session (14th September – 2nd October 2015) General… Read More
Advocacy News / 2 July 2015 Police brutality and racism in American criminal justice system highlighted by IHEU In the wake of the white supremacist killing of nine African-Americans in Charleston, and the fatal shootings of four unarmed… Read More
Campaigns / 1 July 2015 IHEU condemns death sentences for nine accused of blasphemy in Nigeria #SaveKanoNine In the past few days the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has written to senior figures in Nigeria urging… Read More
Campaigns / 16 January 2015 “Raif Badawi is Charlie” Humanist organizations have been among the chorus of human rights groups, activists, and governments internationally, calling for the release of persecuted… Read More
Campaigns / 9 January 2015 IHEU: “call it what it is — Saudi Arabia’s flogging of Raif Badawi is barbarity and torture, plain and simple” It is reported that officials have carried out the first 50 lashes of a 1000-lashes sentence against Saudi liberal, Raif Badawi. The… Read More
5 January 2015 IHEU condemns death sentence for “apostasy”, handed to writer in Mauritania A writer in Mauritania has been sentenced to death for “apostasy”, putting the crime of leaving Islam on a par with the country’s… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Iraq / UN Human Rights Council / Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention / ISIS abuses in Iraq ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 27th Session (8th – 26th September 2014) General Debate, Item 4 The current… Read More
General news / 17 October 2014 A win for fundamentalism, as Asia Bibi death sentence upheld On Thursday the Lahore High Court upheld a 2010 death sentence for Asia Bibi, the woman at the centre of… Read More
General news / 19 September 2014 New Sharia law, harsh penalties, worse to come: Brunei’s human rights review Earlier this year, Brunei started the process of introducing Sharia law into its penal code. The new Penal Code contains… Read More
Action Alert / 15 September 2014 Act now to #FreeRaif: Calling for freedom gets you 10 Years, 1000 lashes, in Saudi Arabia Time is running out for a young activist who called for greater freedom, and now faces devastating corporal punishment and a decade… Read More