Campaigns / 1 August 2007 U.S. District Court allows voting in churches The Appignani Humanist Legal Center (AHLC) has lost its test case on separation of church and state in United States… Read More
23 July 2007 IHEU: ‘Combating Defamation of Religion’ unnecessary, flawed and morally wrong In its submission on Combating Defamation of Religions to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva… Read More
Campaigns / 13 July 2007 Council of Europe backs separation of religion and state Following discussions to which IHEU representatives contributed, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has strongly supported the separation… Read More
Campaigns / 4 July 2007 Humanist leaders meet President of European Parliament MEPs and representatives of NGOs including IHEU, the National Secular Society and the European Humanist Federation made up a large… Read More
Campaigns / 2 July 2007 Council of Europe rejects report calling creationism “dangerous” and a “threat to human rights” The European Council Committee on Culture, Science and Education has rejected a draft report saying that “creationism” and its biblically… Read More
Members and partners / 1 July 2007 Strasbourg court victory on religious education in Norway There were celebrations in the Humanist House in Oslo last Friday, when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg… Read More
Campaigns / 22 May 2007 IHEU defends separation of religion and state at the Council of Europe IHEU was represented at a recent conference organized by the Council of Europe, "The Religious Dimension in intercultural Dialogue". IHEU… Read More
17 April 2007 Fundamentalism in European Education IHEU was represented at a seminar held at the European Parliament on 17 April 2007 on Evolution and Religious Fundamentalism… Read More
8 April 2007 From Rome to Berlin: still a Vatican Europe IHEU member organization Libre Penséé has issued a statement on the Berlin Declaration, which was signed on 25 March 2007… Read More
Campaigns / 26 March 2007 EU Berlin Declaration “a victory for Secularism” "The Berlin Declaration is a victory for Secularism in Europe" said Roy Brown, coordinator of the Vision for Europe campaign,… Read More
Action Alert / 13 February 2007 Secularism under siege As was widely expected, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is using the current six-month German presidency of the EU to revive… Read More