FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Human Rights

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

I just sent this to the Humanist Institute list. May I urge you all  
to sign on to the IHEU newsletter -- a great source regarding  
developments on the international front.

Bob

> Few documents are more central for humanists than the United  
> Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The reconstituted  
> Human Rights Council has now effectively gutted this at the request  
> of Pakistan and other Muslim countries in order to prevent  
> criticism of religion.
>
> The reformed Council has apparently fallen into the same trap as  
> its predecessor. Several stories on this March event are in the  
> IHEU Newsletter
>
>         http://www.iheu.org/taxonomy/term/445
>
> That same newsletter also contains this link to Christopher  
> Hitchens' address to the IHEU World Congress.
>
> 	http://www.iheu.org/node/3199