International Humanist and Ethical Union
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| Abbreviation | IHEU |
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| Formation | 1952 |
| Founded at | Amsterdam |
| Type | International non-governmental organisation (NGO) |
| Headquarters | 39 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB, United Kingdom |
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Region served
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Worldwide |
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President
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Andrew Copson |
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Chief Executive
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Carl Blackburn |
| Andrew Copson, Anne-France Ketelaer, Roar Johnsen, Kato Mukasa, Uttam Niraula, Susan Sackett, Ron Solomon, and Rein Zunderdorp | |
| Website | www |
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is an umbrella organisation of humanist, atheist, rationalist, secular, skeptic, freethought and Ethical Culture organisations worldwide. British philosopher and biologist Julian Huxley (also the first director of UNESCO) presided over the founding Congress of the IHEU in Amsterdam, 1952; Dutch philosopher and politician Jaap van Praag became its first chairman until 1975.
The IHEU works "to build and represent the global Humanist movement that defends human rights and promotes Humanist values world-wide."
In 2002, the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration 2002, which presents as the "official defining statement of World Humanism". The Happy Human is the official symbol of the IHEU.
IHEU holds a World Humanist Congress every three years, hosted by one of its Member Organisations. The next is to be held in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2017.
In January 2017, the organization invited members to suggest a new name for the IHEU. In an email they stated that at the most recent general assembly that many felt the name was "too long and old-fashioned, and the acronym IHEU is difficult to pronounce."
In 2002 at the IHEU's 50th anniversary World Humanist Congress, delegates unanimously passed a resolution known as the Amsterdam Declaration 2002, an update of the original Amsterdam Declaration (1952).
The Amsterdam Declaration defines Humanism as a "lifestance" that is "ethical", "rational", supportive of "democracy and human rights", insisting "that personal liberty must be combined with social responsibility"; it is "an alternative to dogmatic religion"; it values "artistic creativity and imagination" and is aimed at living lives of "fulfillment" through the powers of "free inquiry", "science" and "creative imagination".
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