Dear friends, We have been recently informed of the death of Gerhard Rampp. His work on the international review of ZIM was an important source of information for us. There are very few comparable sources. In this sense, his research for the international Cooperation of freethinkers, atheists and non-confessionals was Read more…
Dear friend Christian: Yesterday, when I thought that everything was lost in order to put an end to the fascist Constitution of the Republic of Chile, created during the military dictatorship of Pinochet, the figures of the president of the Senate (Alvaro Elizalde, declared agnostic, member of the Socialist Party) Read more…
This article has been first published in FREETIHINKER Magazine La fin de vie: enfin une loi d’ultime liberté en France? France’s progress towards legalising assisted dying, by Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, Honorary President of the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity.(ADMD) In English & en français. Since the beginning of Read more…
The International Association of Free Thought defends freedom of conscience and expression on all continents. It expresses its deep solidarity with any victim of religious repression. The attack on Salman Rushdie is a crime against freedom of conscience. Sentenced to death for criticising a religion, in this case Islam, the Read more…
The Grand duchy of Luxembourg has no secular constitution, which means that freedom of practicing religious observances has full power. The Catholic cult has become the standard which must be followed. That is why everything that is religious, especially Catholic is automatically cultural. It is not the pandemic that has Read more…
The IAFT denounces violence in Columbia President Ivan Duque’s tax policy is subject to strong opposition, hundreds of demonstrations are taking place throughout the country. This reform is seen as particularly unfair. It provides for measures that affect the vast majority of the population: Application of IVA (VAT) to many Read more…
“If former Humanist Taslima Nasrin were not stuck with attention seeking, hate mongering and self promotion, she would have joined the extreme groups of the right wing.” How does this sound? At one time her courage in defending Human Rights was inspiring, and after she had to flee Bangladesh, the Read more…
Several IAFT member organisations have expressed concern about the infringement of public and democratic freedoms by the French government during the COVID 19 crisis. A number of international human rights bodies have also expressed concern, such as the UN Human Rights Council, chaired in 2021 by Mrs Nazhat Shameen Khan Read more…
Extract from the letter of ALIPHID (member of AILP) “The Lebanese Association of Philosophy of Law (ALIPHID), member of AILP, thanks the activists and leaders of the National Federation of the Free Thought (France) for the 800€ they have raised by subscription and sent us. Indeed, without this money, we Read more…
One step forward… Sudan: towards a secular State. A popular revolution born in December 2018 brought an end to a military-religious dictatorship that began after a coup in 1989. Dictatorship had forbidden political parties and trade unions, established an awful dictatorship, delivered the already particularly poor country to internal and Read more…