Today we are launching the seventh annual edition of The Freedom of Thought Report. This website is the “Online Edition” of the Report. It contains the most up to date entries for every country in the world. Use the map on the front of this site or visit the Country Index to […]

Today in Brussels we launched the fifth edition of the Freedom of Thought Report. And in a huge change this year the report is no longer primarily a downloadable PDF. We have been busy building an online system so that each country in the world now has its own individual […]

The Preface by Rafida Bonya Ahmed, to the 2015 edition of the Freedom of Thought Report. “My late husband, Avijit Roy, was a science author, a blogger, a writer on topics including the origins of the whole Universe, homosexuality, the evolution of love and everything including literary criticism in between. […]

As the 2015 edition our the IHEU Freedom of Thought Report documents, persecution of the non-religious has escalated in the past year. There has been a rise in extrajudicial violence, and in several states harsher judicial sentences have been handed down for crimes such as “blasphemy” and “apostasy” (leaving religion). […]

In 2014 the preface to the Freedom of Thought Report is by Aggie Ojera and Gulalai Ismail. They shared a stage at this year’s World Humanist Congress in Oxford, in a truly inspiring plenary session about advocating humanist values in hostile environments. They both work for organizations doing tremendous work advocating human rights, […]

The 2014 edition of the IHEU Freedom of Thought Report will be released tomorrow. It will be made available for free as a PDF download on this very website, at https://fot.humanists.international/download from Wednesday 10 December 00:01 GMT. This year we harnessed the power of the humanist community more widely, with volunteer researchers from many […]

Roy Brown is an International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) Representative to the UN Geneva. I attended a three-hour seminar on religious liberty and religious minorities recently (10 June 2014) at the United Nations Geneva. The seminar was organised by the International Association for the Defence of Religious Liberty (IADRL) […]

There’s a round-up of coverage and responses to our Freedom of Thought report over at IHEU.org. This included a launch-day presentation of the report to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Dutch Humanist Association, Humanistisch Verbond (pictured), at which Dutch Human Rights Ambassador, Lionel Veer, commented, “The Netherlands is committed to supporting […]

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) Freedom of Thought Report has received welcoming support during parliamentary proceedings of the UK’s House of Commons. Angie Bray MP asked the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) “if he will assess what implications there may be for his policy of the recent report […]

This is an urgent fundraising request for an atheist blogger facing persecution at home. [Update 27 September 2013: You can now contribute at: http://ottawa.humanists.net/defend-freedom-thought] As recorded in the IHEU Freedom of Thought report, we’ve seen an upturn in cases of atheists being persecuted especially for online expressions of their non-religious views. The trend has […]