Sentences with phrase «international humanist»

Playing a key role in the drafting of the ICABL charter, along with Atheist Ireland, Humanist Canada and International Humanist and Ethical Union CFIC also supported the End Blasphemy Laws website: (CLICK HERE)

He was a Jewish liberal intellectual in the Depression era in New York, and he was a post-Holocaust international humanist.»

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has also welcomed the speech.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

International Humanist organisations where you may find other campaigning humanists from around the world: European Humanist Federation; International Humanist and Ethical Union

Both parliamentarians will speak at the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) conference, to be held at Conway Hall Humanist Centre, London, on June 9 and 10.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is organizing the first «World Conference on Untouchability» at Conway Hall Humanist Centre, London, UK, on June 9 and 10, 2009.

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA and President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, has challenged the UK Government to act:

The alarming conclusions of the International Humanist and Ethical Union's (IHEU) report finds the influence of religion in schools has increased in recent years and removed secular options from some courses, leaving it concluding Britain is in «flux».

Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, tweets at @andrewcopson Liberal democracy, the rule of law, human rights.

Das had been working with the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to gain asylum in Europe; just last week a visa application was denied by Swedish authorities.

In August, Humanists UK hosted the International Humanist and Ethical Union's annual conference, this year on these growing threats to freedom, human rights, and the rule of law around the globe, which featured the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Religion or Belief and in the Field of Cultural Rights.

The United Nations is in danger of creating a global blasphemy law that would make religious criticism a crime, charges a new report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).

Not exact matches

«Humanist Manifesto 2000» does not have a list of signatories anywhere near the status of those who signed the first manifesto in 1933, but Paul Kurtz and his International Academy of Humanism did manage to recruit nine Nobel laureates and comedian Steve Allen.

«One of the things that the humanists need to articulate is what success looks like for the campaign - if it's converts, I wouldn't think that is a realistic measure,» said Stewart - Allen, the director of International Marketing Partners.

ACLU, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctor's Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Donors Choose, Oxfam, Kiva, Goodwill Industries, The Nature Conservancy, Rotary Fund, Seed Foundation, The Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort or S.H.A.R.E., The Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Children's Fund, The Wheelchair Foundation, The Anti Discrimination Support Network, The Tanzanian Children's Fund, PlanUSA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Afghan Children's Fund, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Superman was an atheist), Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, Direct Relief International, The Halo Trust, Orbis....

@Bob Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Greenpeace, Kiva, Donors Choose, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Population Connection, Mercy Corps, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, International Peace Insti / tute, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, HIVOS, Earthward Inc.... etc etc..

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

Prominent humanists have taken a significant role in the International Day of UN Peacekeepers Remembrance Ceremony, which commemorates UN peacekeepers who have been killed in the line of duty.

Read more about Humanists UK's international campaigns work: https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/international-campaigns/

«We call on the international community to stop placating states which criminalise being a humanist or otherwise non-religious, to condemn the persecution of humanists and atheists, and to work with human rights defenders around the world to bring an end to this injustice.»

Raskin's PAC contributions, totaling $ 45,000, include permissible funds from fellow state legislators, $ 10,000 from the Center for Humanist Activism, and $ 10,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Many of the mid-20th century founders of international co-operative institutions — such as Brock Chisholm, Peter Ritchie Calder and John Boyd Orr were humanists.

Ahead of her first public address following the brutal murder of her husband at the hands of Islamic extremists, Bangladeshi blogger Bonya Ahmed has called on the UK Government to do more in tackling extremism at home and to put pressure on international governments to tackle the growing persecution of humanists and the non-religious internationally.

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Astronautical Society Fellow American Astronomical Society American Geophysical Union American Philosophical Society 1995 American Physical Society Children's Health Fund Advisory Board CSICOP Founding Member: 1976 Council for a Livable World Council on Foreign Relations Federation of American Scientists Guggenheim Foundation International Academy of Humanism Laureate International Astronomical Union NASA Planetary Society Co-Founder (1980) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Icarus Editor (1975 - 85) Parade Columnist Peabody 1980 for Cosmos Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 1978 for The Dragons of Eden Oersted Medal 1990 Emmy Outstanding individual achievement for Cosmos, 1981 Emmy Outstanding Informational Series for Cosmos, 1981 Hugo 1981 for Cosmos Hugo 1997 for The Demon - Haunted World Hugo 1998 for Contact Humanist of the Year 1981 Public Welfare Medal 1993 Appendectomy Tompkins County Community Hospital, Ithaca, NY (19 - Mar - 1983) Bone - marrow transplant Apr - 1995 Proxy Baptism: Mormon Provo, UT (13 - Mar - 1998) Austrian Ancestry Maternal Ukrainian Ancestry Paternal Jewish Ancestry Asteroid Namesake 2709 Sagan Risk Factors: Marijuana

Resource Includes: - Key Concepts - Core Questions - Human Right - Social Justice - Amnesty International - Campaigning for Human Rights - Humanist Attitudes to Human Rights and Social Justice - Christian Attitudes to Human Rights and Social Justice - Christian Aid - Salvation Army - Liberation Theology - Censorship - Freedom of Religious Expression - Religious Extremism - Abortion Extremism - Prejudice and Discrimination - Religious Discrimination - Humanist Attitudes to Prejudice and Discrimination - Christian Attitudes to Prejudice and Discrimination - Martin Luther King Jr - Poverty and Wealth - Relative Poverty / Absolute Poverty - Fair Trade - Christian Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty - Helping those in Poverty - Humanist Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.

Resource Includes: - Key Concepts - Core Questions - Human Right - Social Justice - Amnesty International - Campaigning for Human Rights - Humanist Attitudes to Human Rights and Social Justice - Christian Attitudes to Human Rights and Social Justice - Christian Aid - Salvation Army - Liberation Theology - Censorship - Freedom of Religious Expression - Religious Extremism - Abortion Extremism - Prejudice and Discrimination - Religious Discrimination - Humanist Attitudes to Prejudice and Discrimination - Christian Attitudes to Prejudice and Discrimination - Martin Luther King Jr - Poverty and Wealth - Relative Poverty / Absolute Poverty - Fair Trade - Christian Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty - Helping those in Poverty - Humanist Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty - Sample exam - style questions Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.

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In 2008, she was designated a Humanist Laureate by the International Academy of Humanism, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Emerson College, where she gave the commencement address.

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1990 The Indomitable Spirit, The International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York, USA, travelled to Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, AIPAD Special Exhibition at the Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA Botanica: The Secret Life of Plants, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, USA Disturb Me, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA The Humanist Icon, The Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, travelled to The New York Academy of Art, New York and to the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers / Andre Kertesz Vintage Photographs, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary body of scientists and humanists working under the umbrella of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and tasked with developing a proposal for the formal ratification of the Anthropocene as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale.

«The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.»