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Resolutions & statements, Women
United Nations’ Gender Equity Architecture Reform
Submitted by admin on 11 June, 2008 - 09:04This meeting of the IHEU GA resolves that IHEU and its Member Organisations support the GEAR Campaign (Gender Equity Architecture Reform) and the United Nations High Level Panel on system wide coherence recommendations whose main points are:
Genital mutilation of females
Submitted by admin on 26 July, 1993 - 00:01The International Humanist & Ethical Union
* Noting that the United Nations in its charter declares the dignity and worth of the human person and the equal rights of men and women;
Women's rights and the position of women in the IHEU
Submitted by admin on 30 July, 1992 - 00:081. Women's rights are human issues, affecting all society, both women and men, in all areas of community life: equality in education, in job opportunities, in decision making, in access to councils and boards.
2. The right to reproductive freedom and to access to all birth control methods should be recognised as a fundamental human right, and not as a privilege conferred by and regulated by the state. The choice to have a safe abortion should be a legal right of all women and should not be restricted by religious or social conditions or by regressive laws.
The rights of women in Poland
Submitted by admin on 30 July, 1992 - 00:03We, the members of the International Humanist & Ethical Union, gathered in Congress on the occasion of our fortieth anniversary, express deep concern at the progressive violation of human rights by the government of the republic of Poland. The latest drastic example of this process is the prospect of the adoption in Poland of the most restrictive anti-abortion law in Europe. Poland's Parliament, pressed by the Catholic Church, rejected both a more liberal version of the law and a call for a national referendum on the issue of abortion. According to the only version of the law now under discussion, a woman will be allowed to demand and obtain an abortion only if her pregnancy would lead her to death.
IHEU women's caucus
Submitted by admin on 31 December, 1988 - 16:15Whereas: the violation of women's rights have not been adequately dealt with by the IHEU Conference,
Whereas: the specific needs of Women have often been omitted from discussions at the IHEU Conference,
Therefore be it resolved that a Women's Caucus be formed to raise consciousness about and seek solutions for women's issues.
Board of Directors 1988
Equality for women
Submitted by admin on 4 August, 1978 - 00:01Cognisant of the world-wide struggle for and value of equality for women, the United Nations, following International Women's Year, declared an International Women's decade in order to improve the conditions affecting women's lives. With an awareness that equality for women and men is an essential part of all human rights, the IHEU reaffirms its commitment to the right of every woman to choose a way of life reflective of her personal needs, growth, development, and wishes.
Equal chances for women
Submitted by admin on 9 August, 1974 - 00:07Resolved, that men and women as equal members of the human race, should be given the opportunity to contribute equally to the leadership and to the deliberations of this and future convocations of all humanist bodies.
IHEU Congress 1974
International women's year, 1975
Submitted by admin on 9 August, 1974 - 00:06Noting that the United Nations has designated 1975 as International Women's Year
Aware that the Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind; and
"Considering that discrimination against women is incompatible with human dignity and with the welfare of the family and society,"
