You are invited to an IHEU sponsored conference in Kenya, on March 27 and 28.

You are invited to attend the second annual conference and AGM of the Free Society Institute, co-hosted by the International Humanist and Ethical Union. This message serves as an announcement and call for papers for the the one day workshop, to be held on September 11th in Cape Town, RSA.

One Law for All is marking International Women’s Day with "A Seminar on Sharia Law" at Conway Hall Humanist Centre, London, UK.

An international atheist conference will bring activists from around the world to Denmark from June 18 to 20, 2010, to explore the intersection between religion and politics.

“Secularism is about freedom of religion and importantly also from religion. People should have the freedom to practice their religion or non belief as long as this does not violate the human rights of other individuals. It is the responsibility of the state to ensure this freedom”, Babu Gogineni, international director of the International Humanist Ethical Union (IHEU), said at the opening of the eighth International Humanist Youth Conference.

The Nigerian Humanist Movement is holding a national conference on “Witch Hunts, Christian Fundamentalism and Child Abuse” on October 21 and 22, 2009, at the University of Uyo Community Center. Participation is open to everyone.

The great thing about General Assemblies is the chance to meet one another again after a year of hard work in our respective Member Organisations (MOs). Of course we have to discuss the administrative items, the financial reports and the bylaws, and nobody denies that they are important, but an IHEU General Assembly (GA) is always just a little bit more!

Some of the organizations working with interfaith dialogue are open for Humanists as well. Here is information on a large conference that may be of interest if you want to engage in such dialogue.

IHEU's 2009 General Assembly of Member Organisations was held in London on 5th and 6th of June as part of a week of events, including a Conference to mark Darwin's anniversary year and a Global conference on Untouchability. [reports will follow soon]

The important news of the GA was that the proposed new IHEU Bylaws and Internal Rules were passed unanimously. This is a landmark for IHEU as one of the goals of making these changes is to give national Member Organisations from developing countries more influence at the General Assembly. Under the new Rules, established national, democratic, membership organisations will be able to be Full Members of IHEU with voting rights at the GA, along with national and international umbrella organisations for such membership organisations.