Action Alert / 15 September 2014 Act now to #FreeRaif: Calling for freedom gets you 10 Years, 1000 lashes, in Saudi Arabia Time is running out for a young activist who called for greater freedom, and now faces devastating corporal punishment and a decade… Read More
Conferences / 12 August 2014 Wole Soyinka’s International Humanist Award acceptance speech – full text Nobel Laureate and staunch defender of freedom and humanism, Wole Soyinka, joined Pakistani women’s rights activist, Gulalai Ismail, in being… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2014 / Mauritania / UN Human Rights Council / Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights / Imprisoned for blasphemy and apostasy: two cases ORAL STATEMENT United Nations Human Rights Council, 25th Session (3rd – 28th March 2014) Agenda Item 4: General Debate IMPRISONED… Read More
Campaigns / 3 July 2014 Mubarak Bala is free WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against… Read More
Campaigns / 24 June 2014 Nigerian man detained on psychiatric ward for “atheism” A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria,… Read More
2 April 2014 Saudi Arabia’s new law defines atheism as “terrorism”, bans all criticism of government Humanist and secular organizations, as well as civil liberties and human rights groups around the world, have responded with outrage… Read More
Humanists International News / 18 March 2014 IHEU laments Human Rights Council member states who imprison “blasphemers” Several states in which convicted ‘blasphemers’ are currently in jail are also current members of the Human Rights Council. This… Read More
General news / 12 March 2014 Humanists at the UN defend freedom of thought for the non-religious The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is taking part again this year at the United Nations Human Rights Council… Read More
Action Alert / 27 February 2014 “Kill the Witch” Miracle Crusade in Calabar Leo Igwe writes on a new wave of witch hunting churches in Nigeria The world may not have seen the… Read More
Humanists International News / 13 February 2014 IHEU Freedom of Thought report on BBC World The BBC covered the IHEU Freedom of Thought report this week, as part of a segment on prejudice against atheists… Read More
14 January 2014 UK atheist asylum case should “point the way for the world” For the first time in the UK, an atheist has been granted asylum on the grounds that his non-religious views… Read More