Advocacy News / 8 April 2022 UN Suspends Russia from Human Rights Council The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia's membership of the UN Human Rights Council, by a two-thirds… Read More
Advocacy News / 23 March 2022 Myanmar: Humanists call for stronger international response to coup In a joint statement, Humanists International and the Burmese Atheists called for accountability and an end to military impunity in… Read More
Advocacy Statement / 2022 / Ukraine / UN Human Rights Council / Statement at the urgent debate on the situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression International Humanist and Ethical Union Oral Statement UN Human Rights Council 49th Session (28 February 2022 to 01 April 2022)… Read More
General news / 20 June 2020 Humanists International Observes World Refugee Day On World Refugee Day, we come together to recognise the plight faced by the many people who have been forcibly… Read More
15 February 2018 Humanists join UN conference to implement plan on ending violence and atrocities The UN is trying to find new ways to prevent religious extremism and violence, and humanists are represented, working right… Read More
21 September 2017 Humanists for International Day of Peace To mark the International Day of Peace 2017, we asked humanist thought leaders from around the world for their views… Read More
General news / 3 August 2016 Where does humanism stand at a time of crisis? Many people today feel the world is backsliding politically and that terror is escalating. President of the IHEU, Andrew Copson, asks… Read More
Humanists International News / 4 July 2016 The situation in Iraq and Syria The following resolution was approved by the General Assembly of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) 2016. The crisis… Read More
Campaigns / 17 September 2014 ISIS: States across the region share in the responsibility, having promoted an ideology of supremacism and violence Representatives of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva spoke this morning about ISIS,… Read More
Media / 18 September 2013 Humanists speak out on Syria Raheel Raza, speaking for Center for Inquiry, made the first speech yesterday morning (17 September 2014) at the 24th Session of… Read More
3 September 2013 Syria and the Ethics of Intervention In the wake of chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Syria, there has been much debate about the ethics of… Read More