One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space, IKWRO and others plan to deliver the below statement to 10 Downing Street in…
Support the Kurdistan Secular Centre (KSC)
The Kurdistan Secular Centre (KSC) was formally established at a 19 April public meeting in Suleymaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, attended by hundreds of supporters and by…
Support Bangladeshi Free-thinkers and Atheist Bloggers!
We are freelance writers from Bangladesh. Most of us have started our writings through blogging in 2006 and 2007 when a Bengali blog, called, ‘somewhereinblog’,…
Promoting Secularism in the Age of ISIS
This is my speech at the 5th Imagine No Religion conference in Vancouver, Canada during 5-7 June 2015. The global rise of Islamism in particular…
Misogyny in the name of God
Just returned from Bergen International Festival where I participated in a panel discussion on Misogyny in the name of God with the fantastic Deeyah Khan, Gunnar Stålsett, Cecilie…
We must support ‘Esha’
I recently blogged about ‘Esha’, a young woman facing blasphemy charges in Pakistan. Some of you have been asking questions about the case so here…
Human rights law or religion?
Watch today’s BBC Big Questions on whether human rights laws have achieved more than religion for humankind with Peter Tatchell, myself and others. Difficult question…
The Women’s Court in the former Yugoslavia
Sarajevo, May 8, 2015 Marieme Helie Lucas Yesterday May 7 the Women’s Court on war crimes against women during the war in the 1990s formally…
We are all Farkhunda
The below is a shortened version of my speech at Marea Feminist Review and Consulta Torinese per la Laicita public events in Genoa and Turin,…
Against Forced and Child Marriages
Here is my speech against forced marriages and child “marriages” given at a January 2015 event organised at the Swedish parliament by the brilliant Sara Mohammad…