Organized by IBKA and AAI. See www.ibka.org/en/convention2012. 

Erklärung der Internationalen Humanistischen und Ethischen Union (IHEU, Weltdachverband Humanistischer Organisationen) anlässlich des Symposiums „Religionen und Weltfrieden. Zum Friedens- und Konfliktlösungspotenzial von Religionsgemeinschaften“ vom 20. bis 23. Oktober 2010 in Osnabrück.

Humanists in Lower Saxony, Germany, are today holding a public discussion on peace building. The event in Osnabrueck is being held ahead of a symposium, from October 20 – 23, on the topic of Religions and World Peace: Religious Communities and Their Potential for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution. The organizers of the symposium rejected requests to include Humanist representatives in the discussion of peace building.

IHEU president Sonja Eggerickx sent the following statement (available in German here):

Consensus of values in the European constitutional treaty

Geneva, March 16, 2010 -- The Vatican’s record on child abuse was criticized today at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Highlighting the Vatican’s repeated and ongoing efforts to cover up evidence of child abuse by priests, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) accused the Vatican of violating its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

In March 2008, the newly-founded Inarah Institute for Research on Early Islamic History held a three-day international conference in Otzenhausen, Germany, on the early history of Islam and the Koran.

Prof. Carl-Johan Kleberg, former Chairman of the Swedish Humanist Association, presented this report to the 1st Baltic Humanist Conference in Stockholm. Based on a study of 11 Nordic countries – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, it makes a series of recommendations viz.

Location:
In the Baltic Sea Region. (Northern Poland, Southern Finland, North-Eastern Germany, Eastern Denmark, South- or Middle-Sweden).

Participants:
30 to 80 young people between the age of 15 and 26 (Camp-leaders of the age up to 45) from Humanist Associations from The Baltic Republics, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland.

Der Aufruf des Iranischen Praesidenten zur Zerstoerung des Staates Israel entgegen des Artikels 2:4 der Verfassung der U.N. verlangt eine harsche Reaktion der internationalen Gemeinschaft. Daraufhin, am ersten internationalen Tag der Erinnerung an die Opfer des Holocaust wenden wir uns an die Staaten, um die Berufung der Konvention bzg. des Vermeidens und der Bestrafung des Massenmordes und um den Praesidenten der Islamischen Republik von Iran vor das Internationale Kriminelle Gericht zu bringen.

See: the list of IHEU Member Organizations