Other Interventions

From time to time the EHF makes representations to other organisations or takes other campaigning initiatives. Recent examples are given below.

May 2012: Emails sent to Government and other officials in Indonesia deploring prosecution of atheist civil servant for posting his atheism on Facebook

April 2012: Letter to United Kingdom Foreign Secretary expressing doubts about some proposals for reform of the European Court of Human Rights

November 2011: Joint letter supporting atheist Pakistani’s asylum claim

October 2011: Email to secretary-general of the Commonwealth on LGBT rights

July 2011: Letter to Prime Minister of Poland about Bill on abortion

July 2011: Email to Prime Minister of Hungary about new law on registration of religions

April 2011: Letter to Polish prosecutor about case against demonstrators with cross decorated with beer cans

March 2011: Letter to Prime Minister of Hungary about aspects of the new draft Constitution unfavourable to the non-religious and to women

March 2011: Letter to Maltese MPs about proposed referendum on introducing divorce

December 2010: Participation in Cairo conference on “Women and the 21 Century – Feminist Alternatives”

December 2010: Letter to Chancellor of Austria about the need for equal treatment of religious and non-religious bodies and reply from the Chancellor’s office (January 2011)

August 2010: Letter to Moldova about religious education

August 2010: Letter to Nigerian police about assault on father of Leo Igwe (cf. March 2010)

July 2010: Letter to President Medvedev of Russia concerning prosecution of the curators of an art exhibition (cf. July 2009)

March 2010: Letter to Nigerian authorities concerning harassment of Leo Igwe

March 2010: Letter to the Polish public prosecution service concerning Dorota Nieznalska

February 2010: Letter to Greek Prime Minister about threats to human rights NGO

December 2009: Letter to Governor of Harayana, India, about hunger strike by Swami Manavatavadi (cf. July 2008)

November 2009: Support for Joint Statement against UN Resolution on Defamation of Religion

November 2009: Email to the Iranian Head of the Judiciary fails to stop execution for apostasy

October 2009: Speech (in French) by Vera Pegna, EHF representative at OSCE, at Forum “Laïcité 2010″ in Paris, 10 October

July 2009: Letters to Irish Ministers opposing a new blasphemy law

July 2009: Protest to Russian President about prosecution of art exhibition curators

June 2009: E-mail to Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania, about a new homophobic law

February 2009: Letter to President Barack Obama in appreciation of his recognition of Humanism and non-belief

September 2008: Speech by Georges Liénard to meeting in Paris of La Libre Pensée Française concerning the Pope’s visit to France

July 2008: Letter to Sonia Gandhi in support of Kids’ Kingdom (Swami Manavatavadi)

June 2008: Vera Pegna at Open Society Institute conference in Zagreb, Croatia

May 2008: Iceland: Letter to Members of the Icelandic Parliament on the need to treat Sidmennt (the humanist association) equally with churches under tax law

May 2008: United Nations Human Rights Commission: submission on proposals to outlaw “defamation of religion”

March 2008: Romania: Letter to Minister of Education about removal of evolution from school syllabus; Intervention by Alianta Familiilor Din Romania, and Response by EHF

February 2008: Lithuania: Letter to Government over plans to reduce rights to medical abortion

February 2008: Afghanistan: Email to President over death sentence on student journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh

February 2008: India: Letter to Prime Minister over detention of Taslima Nasreen

February 2008: Bulgaria: Letter to Government over plans for compulsory religious education

November 2007: Pakistan: Protest to President over detention of Asma Jahangir

April 2007: Poland: Protest to President and Prime Minister over repressive policies and Reply

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