The EHF will this year for the first time be represented at the OSCE’s Mediterranean Conference, to be held on 27-28 October in Amman, Jordan. (Last year the EHF sent a recommendation to the conference but did not attend.) More details to come . . .
Georges Liénard, EHF acting general secretary, contributed to an important conference on abortion on September 19-20. He spoke on “Abortion and ethics: where does the debate stand today?“, contrasting a religious approach based on fundamental doctrine and an ethical approach based on full consideration of alla spects of the question. The conference, in Paris, was organised by a number of bodies including the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the European Women’s Lobby.
Georges Liénard, EHF acting general secretary, spoke at an important conference on “Abortion rights: what is at stake for the women of Europe?, organised by the Mouvement Français pour Le Planning Familial” (MFPF) and held on September 19-20 in Paris. It was organised by a number of bodies including the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the European Women’s Lobby. This is an English version of his address: the original French text is below. The EU… read more »
The EHF will be active for the third year running at the OSCE’s annual human rights meeting in Warsaw in October. EHF President David Pollock and EHF OSCE representative Vera Pegna will be joined by Polish humanist and journalist Adam Cioch. Said Vera Pegna: “We’ve will again be running one of the limited number of official side-meetings. The subject will be Views at Odds on Freedom of Religion and Belief” – the ‘flier’ for it… read more »
At a packed public meeting in Paris on September 14, Georges Liénard, acting General Secretary of EHF, denounced the hidden purposes of the Pope’s visit to France. He claimed that the Church was aiming to use political influence to “recover its lost influence over ordinary people on important social issues concerning the beginning and end of human life, abortion, contraception, the family, scientific research, especially in bioethics, and so on. “The spectacle of the papal… read more »
La Libre Pensée Française held a protest meeting on 14 September 2008, attended by 700+ people, concerning the Pope’s official visit to France. Georges Liénard spoke as follows (original French text below): Friends What goes about comes about! I was here in Paris on August 24, 1997 in much the same circumstances during the visit of the previous pope, to tell you of the commitment of the European Humanist Federation to secularism, not only in France but… read more »
The EHF responded to a public consultation by the Competition Directorate of the EU Commission (see here and here) in March 2008 as follows:- APPLICATION OF STATE AID RULES TO PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING The European Humanist Federation (EHF) wishes to comment on this consultation. The EHF comprises about 40 organisations in about half as many countries in Europe which through their members and affiliates speak for many millions of European citizens who have no religion… read more »