Each year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) publishes an annual report on the state of religious freedom around the world. USCIRF, statutorily-established by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), is charged... Read More

Uganda Humanists have worked hard to establish schools with an explicitly humanist ethos. My webinar with American Humanist Association (AHA) members in 2021, described the work of Peter Kisirinya at Isaac Newton Humanist School. The... Read More

For humanists and others without supernatural belief systems, ethical values are most effectively expressed through tangible, meaningful acts. Actions have the potential to inspire and engage a broad range of people in a way that... Read More

As a humanist, it’s disheartening to watch humanity plunge into yet another war. I believe in things like cooperation over competition and the ideal that we all benefit far more when we work together toward a... Read More

In early August of this year, Haiti was affected by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, more powerful than the 2010 earthquake which killed, injured, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. This most recent earthquake came... Read More

As a supporter of the American Humanist Association, I am sure you are familiar with the discrimination faced by humanists in the US—but are you aware of the persecution faced by other humanists around the... Read More

Mubarak Bala is a Nigerian human rights activist and President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. On April 28, 2020, Bala was arrested in Kano, a predominantly Muslim state in northern Nigeria, in connection with... Read More