Foreword to the 2021 edition By Dr Ahmed Shaheed Dr Ahmed Shaheed is the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Rene Descartes found ‘thinking’ as proof of existence, a recognition that highlights the central role of the freedom of thought for every human being. Enshrined in […]
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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 […]
Credits for the 2021 edition Editors Emma Wadsworth-JonesElizabeth O’Casey Associate Editor Jessica MacDonald Lead Researchers Lillie AshworthSeif Zakaria Volunteer researchers Ana AquinoLily BerrelKirsty BouwersJérémy ConradAdela CurtinTincho FerThibaut Le ForsonneyWilliam (Bill) GreenSaba IsmailTim JooBaris KaracasuGleb KretininJessica MarvataOlha MukhaDavid OlooLawrence RickardCharlie RodenLynda TilleyFatima Yaqoob and our anonymous contributors Contributors Gary McLellandDr Ahmed Shaheed […]
We defer to the United Nations geo-schema1<unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm> in general to list and organize nation states. We endeavor to include all fully independent and sovereign states in the report; while some disputed territories, overseas territories, dependencies, constituent countries, or non-self-governed territories are not included. If there is known information pertinent to a […]
By Bob Churchill Bob Churchill is Director of Communications at the IHEU, and Editor of the Freedom of Thought Report This report records discrimination against the non-religious, from the relatively minor to the most serious. At that most serious end of the scale, we record how numerous states continue to systematically […]
By Andrew Copson Andrew Copson is President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) Published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), the Freedom of Thought Report is now in its fifth annual edition. In 2012, our first edition was an expanded version of a submission by several […]
By Ahmed Shaheed Dr Shaheed is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, as of 1 November 2016. The right to freedom of religion or belief is a right that is frequently misunderstood by its conflation with narrowly defined views on religious freedom. Such narratives often overlook the […]
The Freedom of Thought Report by Humanists International is a unique annual report and online resource, looking at the rights and treatment of humanists, and the non-religious generally, in every country in the world. Specifically, this report looks at how non-religious individuals—whether they call themselves atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, or […]
Humanists International makes all the data on the assessment criteria applied to each country in the Report available for use under the following license. Freedom of Thought Report by Humanists International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The open data is hosted on Google Drive. The data should be […]
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