21 July 2009
The following message was sent via the Kremlin website to President Medvedev on 21 July 2009 about the prosecution of the curators of the Forbidden Art exhibition: Dear President Medvedev I write on behalf of the European Humanist Federation, which represents forty-two organisations in nineteen countries. We wish to protest at the prosecution of the art critic and former head of the Department of Modern Art at the Tretiakov Gallery, Andrei Yerofeev, and the former… read more »
10 July 2009
The OSCE held a special conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vienna on 9-10 July 2009. This was in part a result of EHF’s representations. Our representative at this Special Human Dimension Implementation Meeting was Vera Pegna, our permanent representative with OSCE. Also attending were Andrew Copson, EHF Board Member, representing the British Humanist Association, and Catherine Lützeler of the Centre d’Action Laique, Belgium. This is Vera Pegna’s report on the event: You may recall… read more »
7 July 2009
We sent urgent letters to the Justice and Foreign Ministers of Ireland asking them to drop proposals to introduce a new blasphemy law much on the lines of that called for by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. We understand that the Irish Constitution includes a requirement for a blasphemy law but that, following a court ruling, the current one, included in a Defamation Act, has been a dead letter for years. Now the Government is… read more »