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Sites of interest to Humanists

IHEU - International Humanist and Ethical Union

The IHEU is the world union of Humanist, rationalist, secular, laïque, ethical culture, atheist and freethought organizations. Our mission is to represent and support the global Humanist movement. Our goal is a Humanist world in which human rights are respected and all can live a life of dignity

European Humanist Federation

IHEYO - International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation

The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) is a think tank whose mission is to promote greater public awareness, understanding, and support for Humanism. The Institute specializes in pioneering new technology and methods for the advancement of Humanism; it publishes the Humanist Network News e-zine.

Founded in 1999 as a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit institute, IHS operates business offices and meeting facilities at the Humanist Center in Albany, New York.

The Secular Coalition for America is the new Washington-based lobbying organization for atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheistic Americans. Their mission is to increase the visibility and respectability of nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.

All Ireland

Belfast Humanist Group

HUMANI - Humanist Association of Northern Ireland (formerly Ulster Humanist Association)

Irish Skeptics Society Among the goals of the Irish Skeptics Society are the promotion of a scientific and rational point of view, the teaching and application of critical thinking skills, the active questioning of claims in a variety of areas, the provision of a forum for debate, discussion and rational argument on a range of relevant topics, and the encouragement of the active involvement of people from a wide range of backgrounds.

Educate Together is the representative organisation of the Educate Together schools and associations throughout the Republic of Ireland. It owes its origins in the movement to establish new multi-denominational primary schools, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By 1984, when Educate Together was established, there were three schools and the organisation acted as their co-ordinating body. Since then the movement has grown considerably.

Campaign to Separate Church and State

Irish Anti War Movement

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

atheist.ie     —a new Irish atheist bulletin board/blog site.

www.aggressive-secularist.com

—A highly informative new blog from Jaime Hyland "on the relationship between philosophy, religion, the media, politics and culture" in Ireland. Jaime's blog is a response to the many columnists and spokepeople for the religious whose views are regularly aired but rarely questioned or examined critically in Irish media.

The Dubliner Magazine

National Museum of Ireland

 

England/UK:

Scotland: Humanist Society of Scotland

Wales: Welsh Humanist and Secular groups

British Humanist Association
Ethical Society UK
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association
Rationalist Press
Secular Humanism
Suffolk Humanists

Rest of Europe:

European Humanist Federation
Belgium - Laicite (French language site)
France - Federation Nationale De La Libre Pensee(French language site)
Iceland -Sidmennt The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association
Iceland - Samt
The Atheist Society (with English summary) Norway -Norwegian Humanist Association

Rest of World:

Australia - Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
Australia - Council of Australian Humanist Societies
Australia -Humanist Society of South Australia
Australia -No Answers in Genesis
Australia -Skeptics
Canada -Canadian Humanists
Canada -Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry
India - Rationalist International
New Zealand -Association of Rationalists and Humanists
New Zealand - The Humanist Society of New Zealand
New Zealand - Skeptics
Russia - Atheism
USA - American Atheists
USA - American Humanist Association
USA - Atheist Alliance Great resource site + they have an extensive Freethought Directory
USA - Darwin Fish and Evolve FISH Sales
USA -Freedom From Religion Foundation
USA - Godless Web site, San Diego
USA -Infidels
USA -Institute for Humanist Studies
USA -Secular Humanism Skeptics
USA - Search for Extraterrestrials at Home Join the search on your computer
USA - Skeptic Magazine
USA - World of Richard Dawkins Unofficial Dawkins site
World -The Brights Individuals with a naturalistic worldview
World - Atheist Celebrities
World - Darwin Day
World -Detox The religious recovery webzine
World - Holy Smoke Skeptical site
World - Humanists Excellent site for information about Humanism
World -IHEU
International Humanist and Ethical Union
World -IHEYO International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation
World -Progressive Humanism A new approach to the Humanist philosophy
World - Sceptical Information Links
World - Secular Islam
World -Skeptical Web Ring New way of similar groups linking over the web

Video Links

There are now many videos available on the internet through services such as YouTube and Google Video. Here are just some examples to get you started. YouTube and Google have excellent search facilities to enable you too find videos on almost any topic.

Humanist Video Challenge

Humanist Video Challenge Entry

A competition was organised by the American Humanist Assocation in 2007 to see who could come up with the best short film to portray a postive image of Humanism and Humanist values. This is just one of the entries. More information about the competition can be found in another video here. There are many more like it available for viewing on YouTube.

Sam Harris at Idea City

Sam Harris speaking at "Idea City 2005"

Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation is an impressive speaker. This is just one of the videos of him available on YouTube.

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Humanism in Second Life

Some users of Second Life have been working lately to create an active Humanist presence there. This video will give you an idea of what they are up to.

What is Second Life? A Wikipedia article can be found here.

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Colin McGinn

English Philosopher Colin McGinn discusses some of the philosophical questions regarding belief and disbelief in God with Jonathan Miller.