Freethinkers International

Emma Bonino dies at 78: Italy loses a giant of secularism and human rights Emma Bonino, one of Italy’s most prominent defenders of civil liberties, secular politics and human rights, died on September 11, 2 […]

Russia sends saint's bones to Ukraine front: A new low in religious manipulation In a move that strains credulity even by the standards of wartime propaganda, the Russian Orthodox Church has dispatched a fragment of […]

How Colonial Education Created Two Nigerias — And Why We Are Still Living in Both of Them The divisions were already visible in the colonial record. By the early twentieth century, British rule had produced a widening […]

China: Cash for snitching on religious people China’s government has found another way to control religious life: encourage ordinary citizens to report one another. Across more t […]

“Allah is lesbian” T-shirt. How many years in prison? More than a year after Moroccan authorities arrested atheist, feminist and LGBTQ rights activist Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar, she rem […]

Israel’s prisons: When cruelty becomes state policy Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners has moved far beyond a debate about whether convicted terrorists deserve comfortable p […]

Taliban rules reportedly institutionalize torture and permit child marriage Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities are turning some of their most extreme practices into an increasingly formal system of law. New r […]

Taliban justice: Violence against women is acceptable until it leaves serious injuries The Taliban’s system of repression in Afghanistan has reached another disturbing milestone. New criminal rules governing the c […]

Austria bans Islamic headscarves for girls under 14 in schools Austria has begun enforcing a controversial ban on Islamic headscarves for girls under the age of 14, reopening a difficult European […]

The right to leave religion is a human right Freedom of religion is frequently discussed as the right to practice Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or any other faith without […]

The worst things feminists have ever said Feminism has been one of the most consequential movements for human rights in modern history. Women gained political representation, […]

Freethinking students organize against religious coercion in U.S. public schools A growing number of nonreligious students in the United States are organizing to defend their right to attend public schools without […]

What if Richard Dawkins really makes a deathbed conversion? Richard Dawkins has spent much of his life arguing that there is almost certainly no God. Yet if one day the news announces that the […]

Donald Trump may inspire and beat his family There are politicians who defend the traditional family. Then there are politicians who apparently need the police to prevent them from […]

Russia arrests prominent palliative-care advocate over anti-war stance Russia has prosecuted one of the country’s best-known advocates for terminally ill children because she publicly condemned the war in […]

U.S. accused of a year of extrajudicial killings at sea For one year, the United States has been killing people aboard small boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. The Trump […]

The Girls Who Never Came Back: Northern Nigeria's Other Education Crisis In November 2025, armed men stormed a girls’ boarding school in Maga, Kebbi State, at 4am. They shot the vice principal. They took 25 […]

U.S. appeals court blocks DOJ attempt to obtain transgender patients’ medical records Medical records contain some of the most private information a person can possess. Diagnoses, treatments, medications and personal […]

They won’t admit Jesus didn’t exist. It is the opium of the people The establishment will not admit the truth. The media will not say it. Rich interest groups refuse to consider it. Even Christian […]

Mussolini would have been proud: Italy’s far right is moving into the political establishment Italy knows better than almost any European country what can happen when extreme nationalism stops being a fringe phenomenon and […]