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General news / 26 April 2017

Saudi place on UN women’s rights commission “brings our valuable international institutions into disrepute” – IHEU

Saudi Arabia, one of the worst states in the world for the rights of women, has been elected to a UN Commission…

Advocacy News / 20 March 2017

IHEU calls for end to laws that allow rapists to avoid jail by marrying their victims

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has today, at the UN Human Rights Council, called for the abolition of…

Advocacy News / 16 March 2017

Child sacrifice, LGBTI discrimination, maternal mortality: Uganda’s human rights record

Child sacrifice, discrimination against LGBTI people, high maternal mortality and hostility to NGOs. These were four key concerns highlighted by…

General news / 21 February 2017

Banned from Iranian national chess team, Dorsa and Borna are “true champions” says IHEU

Two young chess champions have been banned from representing the national team of their home country, Iran. Dorsa Derakhshani was…

Advocacy Statement / 2016 / Paraguay / UN Human Rights Council / Item 6: Universal Periodic Review /

UPR statement on Paraguay

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 32nd Session (13th June – 1st July 2016) Universal Periodic Review –…

Advocacy Statement / 2016 / Vatican City / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights /

Religious doctrine and the denial of SRHR

ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 32nd Session (13th June – 1st July 2016) General…

Advocacy News / 26 September 2016

IHEU highlights persecution of Dalits in climate of Hindu nationalism

During a debate on racism and discrimination at the UN Human Rights Council, Swati Kamble a Dalit woman representing the…

General news / 25 August 2016

This is not our secularism / Ce n’est pas notre laïcité

French translation below Statement from the offices of Humanists International on the “burkini ban” now being enforced in parts of…

Advocacy News / 23 June 2016

At UN, IHEU highlights Paraguay’s “cruel laws and culture surrounding reproductive rights and child abuse”

Today at the UN Human Rights Council, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) used a review of Paraguay’s human…

Advocacy News / 20 June 2016

Religious doctrine can never trump equality and rights of women, says IHEU to UN

“Religious doctrine and the right to freedom of religion or belief should never be put before the rights of women…

Advocacy News / 21 March 2016

IHEU calls on UN to ensure response to Zika includes respecting women’s reproductive rights

In the wake of the World Health Organisation declaring the Zika virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern last month, the…

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