Advocacy News / 30 March 2023 Abortion ban is killing women in Poland, warn humanist organizations at UN Six women have died since 2020 because they were deprived of life-saving abortions, yet Polish authorities continue to shut down… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2022 / Poland / UN Human Rights Council / Universal Periodic Review / UPR Statement on Poland ORAL STATEMENT Humanists International UN Human Rights Council, 52nd session (27 February – 4 April 2023) Item 6: UPR Outcome… Read More
Advocacy News / 10 February 2023 At European Parliament, Italian humanists condemn rise of religious nationalism In January, Adele Orioli, Director of Advocacy at the UAAR, spoke at an event on the topic of “liberal democracy”,… Read More
Advocacy News / 12 October 2022 Humanists International condemns Head of Russian Orthodox Church and religious propaganda in war on Ukraine The Russian Orthodox Church has provided moral backing to the war, while Catholic fundamentalist groups are using the war to… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2022 / UN Human Rights Council / Item 2: Annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights / Statement condemning Head of Russian Orthodox Church & religious propaganda in fuelling war on Ukraine, and negative impact on reproductive rights Oral statement International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 51st Session (12 September – 7 October) Interactive dialogue… Read More
Advocacy News / 4 October 2022 Humanists International marks International Safe Abortion Day with statement at UN The statement noted significant positive developments, and backward steps, in terms of abortion law reforms this past year. Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2022 / UN Human Rights Council / Item 8: Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action / Statement for Safe Abortion Day 2022 Oral statement International Humanist and Ethical Union 51st Session of the UN Human Rights Council (12 September – 7 October… Read More
Advocacy News / 10 August 2022 Belgian humanists condemn lack of abortion access for Ukrainian refugees In a speech to the European Parliament, the President of Centre d’Action Laïque has condemned restrictions on abortion access faced… Read More
Members and partners / 19 July 2022 Abortion deleted from UK Government-organised international human rights statement The revised human rights statement removes all references to ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’. Read More
Membership blog / 11 July 2022 / Contributor Abortion in Malta A blog post by Joanna Onions, a committee member of Humanists Malta Read More
Advocacy News / 6 July 2022 “Overturning Roe v Wade has not ended the attack on abortion”, says Humanists International at UN Humanists International condemns in the strongest terms the United States Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Read More