Advocacy News / 19 September 2016 At UN, IHEU highlights preaching of anti-LGBTI hate in Nigeria and Uganda The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) – in cooperation with Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa, the Coalition for… Read More
Advocacy News / 14 September 2016 IHEU at UN: Don’t distort concept of ‘secularism’ to clampdown on freedom In the wake of the ‘burkini’ debate in France over the summer months and increasing levels of oppression in much… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2016 / Egypt / UN Human Rights Council / UN Human Rights Council / Persecution of nonbelievers in Egypt, Mauritania and Saudi Arabia ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 31st Session (29th February – 24th March 2016) General… Read More
Advocacy News / 4 July 2016 UN appoints new Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief At the close of the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the appointment of Dr Ahmed Shaheed as… Read More
Advocacy News / 1 July 2016 UN passes historic resolution calling for Independent Expert on LGBTI rights In an historic move, the United Nations has adopted a resolution to appoint the first Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation… Read More
Advocacy News / 29 June 2016 UN must “recognise the pernicious nature and illegal status of blasphemy laws” says IHEU The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has once again reiterated to the UN Human Rights Council that anti-blasphemy laws… Read More
Advocacy News / 29 June 2016 IHEU and IDSN call on India to protect Dalit rights and civil society space The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), in association with International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) has called on India to… Read More
Advocacy News / 24 June 2016 At UN, IHEU and Danish Humanist Society call on Denmark to abolish blasphemy law Humanists told the UN Human Rights Council this morning that “the state-church institution is fundamentally unfair” in Denmark as elsewhere,… Read More
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… Read More
Advocacy News / 22 June 2016 IHEU reads poem banned in Saudi for ‘apostasy’ to delegates at UN Today at the United Nations, the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s (IHEU) director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, read out a poem that… Read More
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… Read More