Rights of women

"The Impact of Obstetric Fistulas on Economic Empowerment” was the title of a topic dissected by a unique panel discussion…

Conscience magazine has offered to send a complimentary copy of its Winter 2007/08 issue to IHEU supporters. Conscience is a…

Bangladeshi writer-in-exile Taslima Nasreen was attacked at the Hyderabad Press Club today (Babu Gogineni reports), where she was launching the…

The International Campaign in Defense of Women’s Right in Iran- UK, the National Secular Society and the Gay and Lesbian…

The World Health Organisation now estimates that some 130 million women and girls, mainly in Africa, have been subjected to…

World Summit Commits to Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015 The largest ever gathering of world leaders resolved in…

No country in the world has more women than men in its national parliament, the recently released Inter-Parliamentary Union survey…

Trafficking in persons - the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings for the purpose of…

IHEU's president Roy Brown spoke at the UN Commission on Human Rights on 7 April on behalf of Representative Michele…

Recent events in both France and England have again focused attention on the wearing of the veil, headscarf or hijab…

November 15th and 16th 2003, London 18 August 2003 London Dear Friend, I am writing to tell you about the…