IHEU and member organization the National Secular Society have sent a message to the European Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian rights, meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 14 November 2007. The message calls for human rights and gay communities to recognise the strength of the threat from organised religion and to renew their efforts against it.

IHEU has followed up its presentation to the Council of Europe’s San Marino conference “The religious dimension of intercultural dialogue” with a massive written submission containing 40 specific recommendations. The paper was prepared in conjunction with the UK National Secular Society. It is also available in the original form, complete with contents and footnotes, as a PDF file for download below.

Member Organizations keep the democratic structure of IHEU alive. All IHEU member organizations accept IHEU’s Minimum Statement on Humanism as the common minimum base.

There are three Membership categories for Member organisations:

• Associate Members,
• Specialist Members, and
• Full Members.

In its submission on Combating Defamation of Religions to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva IHEU has damned the current process at the UN as "unnecessary, flawed and morally wrong". In the submission, IHEU affirms that each individual should be absolutely free to form, hold or change his or her beliefs and condemns any attempts at stereotyping of religions, racial profiling of individuals, and any and all calls for violence in the name of religion or God. IHEU also expresses deep concerned that the exercise to combat ‘defamation of religions' could compromise established freedoms including freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.

Resolutions on Defamation of Religion (originally "Defamation of Islam") were adopted by the former UN Commission on Human Rights in 1999 and every year until its abolition in 2006. The IHEU submission says that the very concept of ‘defamation of religion’ is flawed, since it is individuals, both believers and non-believers alike, who have rights, not religions.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has published two IHEU submissions on Dalit rights and child marriage:

• Dalits, the Caste System and Human Rights: Broken Lives
• Child Marriage: A Violation of Human Rights

Both statements are published here together with the official UN versions.

A new Joint Declaration signed by IHEU member organization Libre Pensée and the Ligue de l’Enseignement sets out their absolute opposition to legislation that aims to dilute the historic separation of religion and state established by French law in 1905. The Joint Declaration also opposes all discriminatory legislation and the funding of private education from the public purse. The joint signatories have agreed to continue their discussions to seek convergence in the cause of secularism. They propose to open these meetings to all secular organisations, in order to build a coalition to defend secularism both in schools and the State.