Women
Humanist Women's International Network
Submitted by admin on 8 December, 2005 - 08:18.The purposes of the Humanist Women's International Network are to:
- Promote women's rights, empowerment and development within the UN system and the international community
- Challenge women's subservience in the world's religions
- Promote and encourage humanist women to participate in their national women's lobby and governmental agencies
- Put gender on the agenda of humanist organisations
- Promote and encourage women to take leadership positions within their national humanist organisations
The policy priorities for the Humanist Women's International Network are:
- Education of girls
- Economic empowerment and independence of women
- Health and reproductive rights
- Civil and political rights
- Violence against women
- Separation of religion and state
Humanist Women are welcome to subscribe to a regular network newsletter, to become active in their local or national Humanist organisation, and to contact the Women's Network Co-ordinators if they would like to get involved.
Women in the 21st century
Submitted by admin on 10 March, 2010 - 09:59.
There was a time, as late as the early twentieth century, when women in the west weren’t allowed to vote, when leading universities like Cambridge and Harvard didn’t give them equal status (women students went to Radcliffe, not Harvard, and Cambridge didn’t give out degrees to women students till 1947, though they were allowed to sit for exams!) and when their main role was to be a homemaker
Watering-down of Protection for Gay People 'shames' Parliament
Submitted by Matt on 27 January, 2010 - 02:43.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has condemned votes in the House of Lords last night, January 25, which removed the requirement for discrimination against gay people by religious organisations to be "proportionate."
IHEU condemns Sudan and Iran for using rape as a "political weapon"
Submitted by admin on 1 October, 2009 - 06:06.
Speaking in the plenary debate at the Human Rights Council on 30 September on the Rights of Women, IHEU representative Cathy Buchs condemned the increasing use of rape as a political weapon in Sudan, Iran and other States, contrasting this with the “perverted sense of morality” that condemned 10 women to being whipped in Sudan for wearing trousers.
The UN and rights for women
Submitted by admin on 21 August, 2009 - 10:47.
From its very beginning, the UN has had a commitment to the equality of women. Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
UN adopts resolution on preventable maternal mortality
Submitted by admin on 18 June, 2009 - 09:31.
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the attached resolution on Preventable Maternal Mortality. The text of the speech given by Anthony Grayling on behalf of IHEU in support of this resolution is also attached.
A.C. Grayling speaks for IHEU at UN Human Rights Council
Submitted by admin on 16 June, 2009 - 14:05.
In a speech to the Human Rights Council on 16 June on behalf of IHEU, Professor Anthony Grayling called upon the international community to give far greater attention to the 1,500 maternity-related deaths that occur every day – the vast majority of the preventable. “We believe that wider recognition that this is indeed a human rights issue will provide additional momentum to efforts to reduce this appalling death toll.” (Pictures added.)
Women and the Millennium Development Goals
Submitted by admin on 3 June, 2009 - 10:09.In the year 2000, at the historic moment we called the Millennium, the UN undertook an ambitious programme. All of the UN member states agreed to a challenge to meet the basic needs of the globe within 15 years.
Female genital mutilation
Submitted by admin on 17 March, 2009 - 10:22.
ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION
Joint statement with International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), and
World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ)
UN Human Rights Council –10th session (2-26 March 2009)
By representative David G. Littman, read by Roy W Brown, Monday 16 March 2009
IHEU defends rights of women and attacks censorship at the UN
Submitted by admin on 23 September, 2008 - 09:23.
In a joint statement with Center for Inquiry, IHEU has condemned abuses of women's human rights, including child marriage and "honour" killings, especially in Pakistan and Iran. IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the Human Rights Council.
