Noting:

1. The undue influence of the White Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa over the South African government;

That their moral and other values are imposed on South African society, on those who do not hold these values;

That such people include those who are of other Christian denomination and those who have other religious beliefs as well as those who have no religious beliefs;
2. The continuing denial of full civil rights to the majority of the people in South Africa;
3. The banning of political, philosophical and theological literature is continuing in South Africa;

Welcoming the existence of a humanist movement in South Africa;

Believing

1. That Apartheid and other forms of discrimination of the grounds of race are against the principles of humanism;
2. That the right to knowledge and to express opinions should not be impaired;
3. That the right of objection to undertaking compulsory military service should be allowed not only on religious grounds but also on the grounds of humanist conscience;
4. That the right to religious liberty should extend the right to humanists and others, and that the right of religious dissent should be fully protected by law;

We, the Board of Directors of the International Humanist & Ethical Union, meeting in New York on July 8th 1984, therefore resolve:

1. To call upon the Republic of South Africa to grant full civil rights and liberties to all the people of South Africa;
2. To call on humanists in all countries to encourage peaceful and rapid progress within South Africa towards these aims.

Board of Directors 1984