Appendix 8
WORKSHOP RECOMMENDATIONS

Yes = one agrees
No = one disagrees
Don't know = no opinion

Workshop 1 - Social inclusion

It is important to know about the values and cultural aspects of social exclusion in the different countries in order to develop effective ways of approaching excluded groups and persons and to develop effective programs of intervention to obtain full participation in society.
(Yes: 60%. Don't know: 40%)

Workshop 2 - Reception of refugees

1. Start practical relief projects like SAMAH or support such projects. (Yes: 90%. No: 10%.)
2. Stand up in the streets when a migrant is again asked for papers (Yes: 20%. No: 55%, Don't know: 25%.)
3. More co-operation and alliances between development organizations, refugees organizations and humanist organizations. (Yes: 30%. Don't know: 70%.)

Workshop 3 - Human rights, human values, humanism

1. Promotion of humanist values strengthens both human rights and humanist organizations (Yes: 90%. No: 10%.)
2. Human rights, education and human values education (Yes: 100%.)
3. Attention for civil and political rights and economics, social and cultural rights (Yes: 90%. Don't know: 10%.)

Workshop 4 - The key to human development

1. International humanitarian organizations should build an international knowledge-base and network on (and for) humanist educators and share experiences of those working in the field of ethics. (Yes: 95%. Don't know: 5%.)
2. Humanist ethical education should be open ended, a process of creativity set in a community of critical inquiry and discovery. (Yes: 100%.)
3. IHEU should support courses for teachers in value education and all participants in education involving democracy and human rights. (Yes: 95%. Don't know: 5%.)
4. IHEU should care for and support education in any way it can and put education in de Amsterdam Declaration 2002. (Yes: 95%. Don't know: 5%.)
5. One of the most promising and important areas of co-operation between humanist organizations in the field of primary and higher education and in the field of learning, especially with regard to ethical and moral questions, the IHEU should take a firm initiative towards co-operation in this field and should put it high on its agenda. (Yes: 75%. No: 10 %. Don't know: 15 %.)
6. In view of the importance of self-knowledge and critical awareness of one's own fears and desires for humanistic professionals, the notion of autonomy, which is so central to modern humanism, should be augmented by the idea of the unconscious and the working through of intrapsychic barriers. (Yes:35 %. No: 55%. Don't know: 10%.)

Workshop 5 - Humanism and Islam

1. Islamic Sharia law is to be abandoned (Yes: 75%. No: 10%. Don't know: 15%.)
2. All communities of religion and faith are to develop a notion of sharing the world. The notion of commanding the world by any faith is to be abandoned. (Yes: 80 %. No: 10%. Don't know: 10%.)

Workshop 7 - Poverty, population, gender equality and human development

1. Equal numbers of women and men on shortlists for prizes and among award winners of humanist prizes and awards. This requires a gender sensitive jury. (Yes: 35%. No: 55%. Don't know: 10%.)
2. To replace the ten commandments by ten capabilities as defined by Martha Nussbaum. But to keep 1 commandment, which is to love another human being at least one time a day. (Yes: 35%. No: 60 %. Don't know: 15%.)
3. To have gender equal representation in IHEU delegations, conferences, congress and all other representations of IHEU and its members. (Yes: 85%. No: 5%. Don't know: 10%)
4. All humanists should urge their governments to support human development programs in developing countries. (Yes: 90%. Don't know: 10%.)

Workshop 9 - Youth and humanism

1. Abandon the negative stereotypes about each other. (Yes: 95%. Don't know: 5 %.)
2. Strengthen the support and co-operation with IHEU and its member organizations. (Yes: 100%.)

Workshop 10 - Campaigning and the media

1. Humanists should make use of modern methods of campaigning: the internet (website and e-mail). (Yes: 70%. Don't know: 30%.)
2. Humanist should set practical and attainable objectives for campaigns. (Yes: 45%. No: 35%. Don't know: 20%.)

Workshop 11 - Humanists in the international arena

1. IHEU should send out regular news updates about important IHEU-issues and successes in the international arena. IHEU should put these topics and announcements at their website as well as sending them off to humanists, other organizations and the press. (Yes: 55%. No: 20%. Don't know: 25%.)
2. IHEU will create a list of their member organizations, along with their different areas of expertise and special interests. (Yes: 25%. No: 20%. Don't know: 55%.)

Workshop 12 - The power of diversity

1. Humanists should give space to the arts, because arts give a special view on the world. It can change the world. Revalidate the power of emotions through arts. (Yes: 90 %. Don't know: 10%.)
2. At the next congress let us bring works of art. (Yes: 35%. No: 50 %. Don't know: 15%.)
3. Support authors' and artists' rights to e.g. income. (Yes: 70%. No: 30%.)
4. Arts should have a place in ethnical education of children and young people. (Yes: 70%. No: 30%.)
5. Use humanist network of organizations to exchange and distribute art, e.g. by the internet, e-mail. (Yes: 65%. No: %.35%.)

Workshop 13 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Emancipation

This workshop didn't have a sheet with recommondations but made a small report which we include. During the IHEU-congress this workshop linked presentations of Hivos partner organizations from Zimbabwe, Namibia, and India, to exercises on individual experience of universal mechanisms of social exclusion. Whereas world religions clash with each other on several issues, one of the common elements (especially among the monotheistic religions) is their unease with bodily pleasure and their urge to control gender variations, by reducing diversity of sexual identities to a polarity of the sexes under the dogma of procreation. Humanism is one of the few (fortunately not the only one) life-stances which positively embraces equality in combination with pluralism, as reflected by the title of the IHEU-congress "All different, all equal". IHEU also has a fair track record of profiling GLBT interests.

The current highlight on emerging leadership of gays and lesbians in developing countries contradicts the widespread myth that honouring pluralism in sexual orientation and gender identities would be a result of the demise of culture and of Western hegemony. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people are indigenous world-wide. Their invisibility in many parts of the world reflects the limited public space and individual recognition available for people living alternatively to a polarity of the sexes under the dogma of procreation; their position in society is an indicator for monitoring human rights and civil society. The existential difference between GLBT-identities on the one hand and the functional heterosexuality of the families and social contexts they generate from on the other hand, requires attention to the need for public space for alternative identification.

Notwithstanding the current highlight on the challenges faced by gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgendered people in developing countries, it is clear that similar challenges have been met or are (to be) met all over the world. Socio-historic development in various parts of the world shows that public recognition of pluralism in sexual orientation and gender identities is a valuable contribution to the well-being of humankind.

Global networking of GLBT movements and alliances between GLBT-leadership and other stakeholders of civil society are important methods of humanizing the global village.

Next to its active public support of GLBT-interests in the United Nations and in other international bodies, as well as addressing national governments, IHEU is urged to call on its member organizations and other NGO's to:
1. work in coalition with existing organizations promoting and protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people's interests in human rights;
2. promote awareness, both inside and outside their organizations, of barriers and forms of discrimination that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people face in participating in public life, and how to counter these;
3. promote information and educational materials promoting the equality and inalienability of human rights, irrespective of sexual orientation or gender identity;
4. stimulate the development of positive images of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people and lifestyles as role models for (young) people;
5. institute policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and acting on it in all aspects of the organizations' work.

Specified in the resolution adopted at the 1999 IHEU Congress & General Assembly in Mumbia (India) and hereby reiterated at 50th Anniversary Congress of IHEU in 2002 in Noordwijkerhout (the Netherlands).

Workshop 14 - Developing Humanism in Europe

1. Humanist associations have to make their voices heard in the UN to put an end to discrimination against humanists and non-believers. We have to use the funding possibilities offered by the European Commission e.g. for debates, colloquia and publications. (Yes: 90%. No: 10%.)
2. More participation of humanist associations in the EU-bodies through EHF-FHE. (Yes: 55%. No: 25%. Don't know: 20%.)