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Humanists International Profile picture
Humanists International
@HumanistsInt
We are the global representative body of the humanist movement. 🌎🌍🌏🌐 (Formerly known as: "International Humanist and Ethical Union")
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Dec 10, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Don't forget to tune in later at 15.00 UTC for the launch of the Freedom of Thought Report by Humanists International! Here are some highlights from the report.

Facebook link: facebook.com/humanistsinter…
YouTube link: Image Here are the 10 most discriminatory countries against the non-religious Image
Sep 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
We submit the following questions to the candidates standing for election at the Human Rights Council as part of the online #HRCpledging event hosted by @amnesty & @ISHRglobal Saudi Arabia (1/2): Many peaceful citizens, incl. #RaifBadawi #AshrafFayadh & #AhmadAlShamri, languish in prison for the ‘crime’ of exercising their basic human right to free expression. If elected, will KSR end its zero-tolerance policy towards dissent or criticism? #HRCpledging
Sep 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
2019 has been a crucial year for @HumanistsInt: a 70% increase in income, £100k+ given out in grants to our Members and Associates, new staff members, more resources invested to #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk, etc.

Read all this in our Annual Report 2019! 💪

humanists.international/2020/09/annual… Here are some highlights from the Annual Report 2019 of @HumanistsInt - read the full Report on our website:

humanists.international/2020/09/annual… Image
Aug 24, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
The behavior described in this article is serious and completely reprehensible, and warrants a full investigation by the police or relevant authorities. Thread: 1/12
While the disgusting behaviour described in this article does not remove a person's basic right to asylum, it does affect whether we are willing to work on his case.
Aug 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Did you know that you can be sentenced to death for 'apostasy' in at least 10 countries in the world today? Image Read more about the right to apostasy in the world here: humanists.international/get-involved/r…
Jun 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Our new "Humanists at Risk: Action Report 2020" is out: hmnts.in/HAR-report-2020

If you can donate at this time, please sustain our work with a small donation to our #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk campaign: gofundme.com/f/protect-huma… Image Our new "Humanists at Risk: Action Report 2020" is out: hmnts.in/HAR-report-2020 Image
Jun 2, 2020 • 10 tweets • 10 min read
Humanism is non-religious, but there are several other aspects and components of humanism. For instance, humanity, gender equality, the environment, other animals, science and culture.

#10ReasonsWhy #GoHumanist: hmnts.in/go-humanist Defending human rights, protecting humanists at risk, and promoting humanists values at the United Nations and other human rights bodies (hmnts.in/advocacy) is an important part of a humanist organization’s work.

#10ReasonsWhy #GoHumanist: hmnts.in/go-humanist
May 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Download and share our COVID-19 #MythBusters memes in 15+ languages on our website: hmnts.in/COVID-19-mythb… Image Download and share our COVID-19 #MythBusters memes in 15+ languages on our website: hmnts.in/COVID-19-mythb… Image
Nov 13, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Out NOW: the 2019 Freedom of Thought Report humanists.international/2019/11/freedo… fot.humanists.international
Oct 28, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Thank you @abhumanists & @Humanists_UK for hosting our Board member @rozzyrulz in conversation tonight with our CEO @Gary_McLelland starting now. Applause for Roslyn as Gary mentions she was the first African woman elected to the Humanists International board, earlier this year. .@rozzyrulz talks about her own journey to humanism, how as a teenager she was amazed by foreigners who weren't Christians, she began researching, and ended up "deconverting myself". Her org @HumanistsGH is gaining voice in Ghana. ImageImage
Oct 11, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is Reverend Simon Lokodo, a parliamentarian, and –risibly – since 2011 is Minister for "Ethics & Integrity" in Uganda's repressive, conservative government.

He is YET AGAIN trying to push a brand new "kill-the-gays" bill in Uganda. amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Image Attacks on gay men and women have continued in the years since the first "kill-the-gays" bill, including multiple murders. In 2016, an 8-year-old girl was arrested for "lesbianism" independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…

None of this seems to bother the right honourable Minister for Ethics.
Oct 7, 2019 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Earlier this year, humanists from around the world passed the Reykjavik Declaration on the Climate Change Crisis: humanists.international/policy/reykjav… and we took it to the United Nations in July: humanists.international/2019/07/humani… Image The Reykjavik Declaration set out the need for "a global transition to new ways of using resources and new means of generating energy that will be socially and environmentally sustainable" and made the following call to action: Image
Sep 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
At the UN we've raised the issue of violence and persecution against women who authorities see as a threat because they challenge norms and defend human rights:
humanists.international/2019/09/this-i… We raised the cases of three women recently mistreated by their respective governments. Sahar Khodayari – known as the “Blue Girl” in Iran – died after setting herself on fire during a trial for having tried to enter a football stadium dressed as a man…
Jun 2, 2019 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
Final day of #HumanistsIceland events, and delegates are gathering for the Humanists International General Assembly 2019. Take your seats we will begin shortly... ImageImageImageImage President @andrewcopson welcomes delegates. Outlines how the organization has been growing, and notes that this is the first General Assembly under our new brand: a pledge from last year fulfilled! #HumanistsIceland ImageImage
Jun 1, 2019 • 35 tweets • 14 min read
Day 2 of #HumanistsIceland weekend kicking off now as the President of Iceland Mr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson opens the Sidmennt conference. Image The president outlines the history and diversity of belief in Iceland and concludes: "The religion of one, or many, cannot be the basis of laws of the land."
May 29, 2019 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
Coming up this weekend: the General Assemblies of @HumanistsInt + @EU_Humanists + @YoungHumanIntl and a conference on "the Ethical Questions of the 21st Century" by the Icelandic Humanists: sidmennt.is. Using #HumanistsIceland for updates. humanists.international/get-involved/e… ImageImage Ahead of our General Assembly at #HumanistsIceland this weekend, we're sharing some #facts about our work. They can also be found in our Annual Report for 2018, which you can download (PDF) via: drive.google.com/uc?export=down… Image
May 8, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It is good to see Asia Bibi finally leaving Pakistan after years of persecution for alleged 'blasphemy': bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… #AsiaBibi #blasphemy

But a disparity is highlighted here. THREAD > While the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian, has seen prominent news coverage globally, other cases, more associated with secular criticism of religion, have been downplayed.
Apr 24, 2019 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
Our event with @ConwayHall on #FundamentalismRising beginning now. President @andrewcopson introducing Salil Tripathi with @pen_int Writers In Prison Committee and @BonyaAhmed. Image Salil discusses attacks on rationalists in India (more on that here:
humanists.international/2017/03/ration…) He notes that we don't know who committed these crimes, but we can look at who celebrates these attacks, and the wider political support for the fundamentalism that underlies them.
Feb 6, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Gulalai Ismail has again been arrested along with scores of others for peaceful human rights activism. IHEU is writing to the authorities demanding release of the protesters. iheu.org/gulalai-ismail… "Criticism of the army or the state as such is not at all identical with insurgence or sedition… We call for the release of Gulalai Ismail, Abdullah Nangyal, Pashteen Idrees, and all protesters arrested" yesterday. And investigation of apparent killing of Arman Loni on Monday. Image
Oct 29, 2018 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
The IHEU Freedom of Thought Report 2018 is out now: freethoughtreport.com Read the Foreword from publisher & activist @AhmedurChy: freethoughtreport.com/foreword/ "I write against your terror and in favour of humanism and reason. Your fear, your hatred, and your terror never made a single thing you believe truer, never made a single thing I believe less true."
Oct 7, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some accused of 'blasphemy' are campaigners, politicians, journalists. Others are ordinary members of communities, accused out of prejudice.

Activist or ordinary person, religious or non-religious, these prosecutions are always a deep injustice. #EndBlasphemyLaws

#FreeAsiaBibi Update on Asia Bibi final appeal of death sentence for "blasphemy": Reports from Pakistan suggest the Supreme Court has reserved judgment today (they will issue a final decision later - but no time seems to be specified). Not unusual in itself. #FreeAsiaBibi