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The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that advances secular humanism. [3]The American Humanist Association was founded in 1941 and currently provides legal assistance to defend the constitutional rights of secular and religious minorities, [4] lobbies Congress on church-state separation and other issues, [5] and maintains a grassroots network ...
Humanists UK, [2] known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom [3] by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights.
Although issues over charitable status prevented a full amalgamation, the Ethical Union under Blackham changed its name in 1967 to become the British Humanist Association, establishing humanism as the principal organizing force for non-religious morals and secularist advocacy in Britain. The BHA was the legal successor body to the Union of ...
Adherents of this view, including Humanists International and the American Humanist Association, consider that the unmodified but capitalized word Humanism should be used. The endorsement by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) of the capitalization of the word Humanism , and the dropping of any adjective such as secular , is ...
Humanists International (known as the International Humanist and Ethical Union, or IHEU, from 1952–2019) is an international non-governmental organisation championing secularism and human rights, motivated by secular humanist values.
Humanist Society of New Zealand; New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists; News and Letters Committees; Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network; North East Humanists; Norwegian Humanist Association
Richard Dawkins accepting the Services to Humanism award 2012 at the British Humanist Association Annual Conference. Humanist organizations exist in several countries. Humanists International is a global organization. [162] The three countries with the highest numbers of Humanist International member organisations are the UK, India, and the US.
Humanist Society Scotland is a Scottish registered charity that promotes humanist views and offers humanist wedding, funeral, and baby-naming ceremonies. It is a member of the European Humanist Federation and Humanists International. In the 21st century, the HSS has grown in tandem with the rapid pace of secularisation in Scotland.