Advocacy Statement / 2015 / Egypt / UN Human Rights Council / Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention / Egypt’s hate campaign against atheists ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union United Nations Human Rights Council, 29th Session (15th June – 3rd July 2015)… Read More
General news / 31 October 2015 Coordinated machete attack on publishers of secular authors in Bangladesh In what now appears to be a coordinated attack, at least one person has been killed and three people have… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2015 / Iraq / UN Human Rights Council / Item 2: Annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights / Silence of Human Rights Council on ISIS crimes ORAL STATEMENT International Humanist and Ethical Union UN Human Rights Council, 30th Session (14th September – 2nd October 2015) General… Read More
General news / 18 August 2015 Huge alliance protests government response to Bangladesh blogger murders Bloggers, free speech campaigners, humanist associations, religious and ex-Muslim groups, all unite to protest Bangladeshi blogger murders Following a string… Read More
General news / 18 August 2015 Statement on arrests in Bangladesh blogger murder cases The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is urging caution and some skepticism in reacting to reportage on the process of justice… Read More
Humanists International News / 7 August 2015 Niloy Neel – Fourth atheist activist murdered in a year in Bangladesh Niladri Chatterjee, known by his pen name Niloy Neel, an online activist and secularist protester, has been found dead in… Read More
Advocacy News / 2 July 2015 At Human Rights Council, IHEU raises plight of Bangladeshi Atheist bloggers The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has called on the Bangladesh Government to take urgent action to protect the… Read More
Campaigns / 1 July 2015 IHEU condemns death sentences for nine accused of blasphemy in Nigeria #SaveKanoNine In the past few days the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has written to senior figures in Nigeria urging… Read More
Advocacy News / 24 June 2015 IHEU calls out Egypt at UN on its hate campaign against atheists As reported in the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)’s Freedom of Thought Report last year, the Egyptian state is… Read More
General news / 12 May 2015 Third atheist writer hacked to death in Bangladesh this year Early this morning, Ananta Bijoy Das was murdered, hacked to death by four assailants on the streets close to his home. Ananta had… Read More
General news / 2 April 2015 “No, I will not write about war crimes, Islamic extremism, the country or politics anymore” Washiqur Rahamn Babu was killed on Monday. Two of his three killers — allegedly students from two different madrassa — say they had… Read More