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Submitted by admin on 20 September, 2006 - 09:14
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IHEU attacks “traditional values” which undermine human rights
Submitted by Matt on 22 March, 2011 - 15:15
In a morning-long debate on traditional values at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday 22 March 2011, the Pakistani delegate, speaking on behalf of the 57 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was allowed by the president to overrun his allotted three minute by a further seven in order to express his outrage at an incident reported just that morning. Was it the massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Damascus? No. The killing of peaceful demonstrators in Yemen or Bahrain? No. His diatribe was against the burning of a copy of the Quran in Florida.
Victory in sight on defamation of religion?
Submitted by Matt on 22 March, 2011 - 15:10
In what looks like a major climb down on the part of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) this grouping of the 57 Islamic states in the UN has tabled a draft resolution at the Human Rights Council: “Combating intolerance …and violence based on religion or belief”.
IHEU criticizes Mauritania over slavery and the death penalty for homosexuals
Submitted by Matt on 22 March, 2011 - 15:04
The friends of Mauritania, mostly Islamic states, who spoke in an hour-long debate in the Human Rights Council Friday, 18 March 2011, would have us believe that this vast but under-populated West-African desert state was a model in its efforts to comply with international human rights law.
Do Islamic states really care about incitement to hatred and violence?
Submitted by Matt on 16 March, 2011 - 14:38
In a joint statement by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and Centre for Inquiry (CFI) at the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, 15 March 2011, IHEU main representative Jack Jeffery challenged the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to broaden the scope of its oft-repeated resolutions on defamation of religion to encompass any actions or conduct leading to incitement to hatred or violence.
A rare victory for Human Rights
Submitted by Matt on 25 February, 2011 - 18:17On 25 February 2011, at a hastily called special session, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution to seek the suspension on Libya from membership of the Council and to send a team to Libya to investigate and report back on the human rights situation in that vast and unhappy country where the government of Muammar Gaddafi has been using military force against his own unarmed civilian population, killing hundreds.
IHEU protests Palestinian atheist persecution
Submitted by Matt on 18 November, 2010 - 17:13
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is protesting the imprisonment of a Palestinian blogger for alleged atheism. Waleed Khalid Hasayin has reportedly been detained by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank since October 31. The 26-year-old computer science graduate is accused of posting anti-religious writings on the Internet. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison as well as the threat of vigilante killing.
IHEU demands action from Human Rights Council on stoning, honour killing and impunity
Submitted by Matt on 20 September, 2010 - 15:38
Speaking on 20 September 2010 at 15th session of the UN Human Rights Council, IHEU representative Raheel Raza spoke of the plight of women being sentenced to death by stoning, or killed by family members in the name of "family honour" and the impunity that often accompanies these killings.
IHEU silenced at UN for attempting to question the role of Islam in the persistence of slavery
Submitted by Matt on 15 September, 2010 - 19:04
It was just three years ago that the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour said "there can be no taboos in the Human Rights Council". But there were then, and there still are today – as we learned this afternoon at a meeting to discuss slavery and forced labour in Brazil and Mauritania.
Saving the world from Islamism
Submitted by admin on 23 July, 2010 - 07:25A liberal Muslim acquaintance of mine recently posed the question of how we are going to be able to nullify some of the more toxic beliefs of Islam and make the world peaceful for all. Here is my reply.
