29,000,000 human beings: IHEU highlights widespread domestic and sexual slavery
There are more than 29 million people living in slavery across the world. From Sudan to Pakistan, there are people…
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Families: Use Protection!
IHEU's head of delegation to Geneva, Elizabeth O'Casey, blogs on a worrying development at the UN: the euphemistic "protection of the family"
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IHEU speaks on honour-based violence and gender stereotyping
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has spoken at the UN Human Rights Council about how gender stereotyping, the…
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IHEU urges European states to stop discrimination against women under the guise of arbitration
During a discussion on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action at the Human Rights Council this week, IHEU representative,…
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Caste, racism and manual scavenging in India
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) spoke at the 25th session of the Human Rights council today on the topic…
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Humanists attack marital and sexual slavery and the Islamic obsession with Islamophobia
On Tuesday 17 September 2013, Amelia Cooper, representing the British Humanist Association at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva,…
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International Topless Jihad Day (4 April) — “We stand in solidarity with Amina, and all those who will join her.”
Death threats from authority figures, over a single topless photograph of an activist named Amina, have inspired a global backlash…
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Feminism’s New Indignation
There is a new wave of public moral outrage at crimes perpetrated against women, and we must embrace it –…
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UN accepts IHEU recommendation on preventable maternal mortality
Humanists at the UN have stressed the role of contraception in not only enabling family planning and lowering the rate…
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Iran shamed for new measures denying higher education to women
It may surprise many to learn that the majority of science graduates in Iran are women. But that may be about…
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IHEU: 100 million girls will suffer ‘child marriage’ in the next decade
IHEU has reminded the UN Human Rights Council that 100 million girls will be victims of ‘child marriage’ in the…
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