Members and partners / 23 September 2008 CFI supports humanity, equality and human rights for women Center for Inquiry has delivered an oral statement at the UN Human Rights Council supporting IHEU in defending the rights… Read More
23 September 2008 USA speaks out strongly against OIC manoeuvring on “defamation of religion” The US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, John V. Hanford III, has strongly supported freedom of religion and… Read More
23 September 2008 Defamation of religion is not a human rights concept – Belgium In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council, Belgium has come out firmly on the side of individual human… Read More
Campaigns / 18 September 2008 IHEU calls on UN Human Rights Council to condemn Sudan In a statement to the Human Rights Council, IHEU has called for Sudan to be condemned for its failure to… Read More
10 September 2008 Spinoza and secularism at the UN Quoting Spinoza in a statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva delivered jointly with the Association for World… Read More
4 September 2008 IHEU stands up for the primacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, Sixty years after the UDHR: threats to the universality of… Read More
11 August 2008 IHEU’s UN campaign highlighted in Canada IHEU's campaign for freedom of expression at the UN Human Rights Council has been highlighted by Macleans, the Canadian news… Read More
28 July 2008 UN rejects attempt to expel Jewish NGO. News has reached us that, following an appeal from IHEU, the UN Economic and Social Council has dismissed the complaint… Read More
Humanists International News / 27 June 2008 Support for IHEU’s work at the UN Human Rights Council Support for and interest in IHEU's work for freedom of expression at the UN has come from many commentators, following… Read More
23 June 2008 Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism… Read More
17 June 2008 Human Rights Council President: “We are on a slippery slope” It took one hour and twenty-five minutes for a three-minute joint statement by the Association for World Education with IHEU… Read More