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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 2013 edition of the Freedom of Thought report is hugely expanded. It now examines every country in the world for legal discrimination and human rights violations which specifically affect atheists, humanists and the non-religious. (The 2012 edition contained 60 countries.) You can download it here. In addition the 2013 edition […]

The following maps colour each country by the level of the most severe boundary condition(s) applied in each category. For example: if the worst boundary condition that is found to apply in the “freedom of expression” category was at the level of “Severe discrimination” then this country will be coloured […]

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 […]

The concept of “blasphemy” remains a huge problem faced by atheists, other non-religious people, and religious minorities around the world. On the one hand, “blasphemy” is simply what you call it when someone is irreverent or insulting about religion. However, the word is deeply entwined with the idea of moral […]

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 […]

The IHEU Freedom of Thought report focuses on “discrimination against Humanists, atheists and the non-religious”. But of course, the right to ‘freedom of religion or belief’ applies equally to the religious. So why the focus on non-religious people? As an international umbrella body, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) […]

The Freedom of Thought Report is a unique worldwide survey of discrimination and persecution against humanists, atheists and the non-religious published by Humanists International. The Report contains an entry for every country in the world.  The Report is updated on a rolling basis by the team at Humanists International, with […]

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is pleased to launch freethoughtreport.com today, 14 August 2013. Freethoughtreport.com is a hub for information and collaboration on the international Freedom of Thought report published by IHEU. The Freedom of Thought report itself, which launched last December to mark Human Rights Day, focuses on […]

The Freedom of Thought Report is published by Humanists International, the worldwide umbrella of Humanist, atheist, secular and similar organizations. The Report examines every country in the world for its record on upholding the rights and equality for non-religious people. We consider issues of legal discrimination and outright persecution and […]