The Nettie Column

A NEW Center for Inquiry was opened in Amherst, New York on 9-10 June 1995. The dedication event was entitled 'Defending Reason in an Irrational World'. The new center will be occupied by the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH) and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP).

The Persecution of Xiao Xuehui

THE IHEU is starting a campaign to help a humanist who is being persecuted by the Chinese government.

TASLIMA NASRIN

An End to Democracy in Poland?

A leading Polish humanist, Barbara Stanosz, is here interviewed by Frank Schrammar, responsible for the Secretariat for Eastern Europe.

SECULAR HUMANISM IN MEXICO

There are strong moves to promote humanism in the Spanish-speaking world. In Madrid a major humanist Congress has been held (see front page) which augurs well for the future. In Mexico a new journal Razonamientos has been founded – a rationalist magazine for South America (see the Nettie Column) The next full IHEU Congress will be held in Mexico in November 1996.

HERMANN BONDI

SPEAKS AT HUMANIST CONGRESS IN MADRID

At a major Spanish humanist congress in Madrid (20-22 April 1995}, Hermann Bondi, the British physicist and former Master of Churchill College, spoke of 'Ethics, Science and Humanism'. Professor Sir Hermann Bondi is President of the British Humanist Association and the Rationalist Press Association.

THE Congress was organised by the Spanish Association of Rational Humanism together with the Ateneo of Madrid, the Ibero-american Commission for the spread of rationalism, scepticism and humanism, The Academy of Humanism and the International Humanist and Ethical Union.