SRHR and discrimination
ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) Interactive Dialogue with WG on Discrimination…
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Honour-based violence and gender stereotyping
ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 26th Session (10th – 27th June 2014) Annual Full-Day Discussion on Women’s Rights…
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IHEU highlights “traditional” and “cultural” practices that undermine women’s sexual and reproductive rights
During an intervention at the UN Human Rights Council, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) head of delegation, Elizabeth…
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Religious law, prison for “blasphemy”, severe sexual inequalilty: Qatar’s human rights review
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has raised serious concerns about the situation for freedom of religion, belief, expression…
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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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