The International Humanist and Ethical Union was founded in 1952, when a gathering of world Humanists met under the leadership of Sir Julian Huxley.

In 1962 Huxley accepted the American Humanist Association's annual " Humanist of the Year " award.

Huxley also presided over the founding Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and served with John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann on the founding advisory board of the First Humanist Society of New York.

His progressive ideas led him to found, in 1929, the First Humanist Society of New York, whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann.

In 2009, the organisational structure articulated in 1983 was dissolved by Silo leaving behind 5 official organisations to represent the Humanist Movement's interests in various fields of human endeavour.

He considers himself both an atheist and agnostic, but believes that " new atheism " is a disservice to science and loathes the term " Humanist.

In 2001, in the Annual Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly of General Coordinators, the highest level of interchange for those involved in the organisational structure, in Madrid, Spain, Silo announced his retirement from the affairs of the Humanist Movement, leaving all further development in the hands of this collegiate body that he himself had created.

On May 13, 2006, Pinker received the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award for his contributions to public understanding of human evolution.

At this date images of terrifying monsters have predominance over the emphasis on the human figure that developed with Humanist philosophy.

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

In 2001, the International Humanist and Ethical Union signed the Amsterdam Declaration, starting with the statement " The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system with physical, chemical, biological, and human components ".

He has two daughters, and is a Humanist ( one who believes all human beings have the right to explore the Galaxy ).

The Norwegian Humanist Association is an organization for people who base their ethics on human, not religious values.

She was a recipient of many international human rights awards, including the Rafto Prize, the European Parliament ’ s Robert Schumann medal, the awards of International Humanist and Ethical Union, the World Women ’ s Alliance, the Adelaida Ristori Foundation, the U. S. National Endowment for Democracy, the Lithuanian Commemorative Medal of 13 January, the Czech Republic Order of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, and others.

For his role as an international artist, humanist, human rights advocate, and founder of the Archive of Humanist Art, Kelly received the Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

# Campaigns: to promote and defend human rights and Humanist values

The Institute for Humanist Studies supports its mission through careful attention to and implementation of the following goals as a way to advance in the public arena the benefits of Humanist thought and praxis for the advancement of human life:

The project of the Humanist Movement is to eradicate war, hunger, poverty and economic exploitation across the planet and develop a new system based on the value of human life as the central value, higher than money, power, prestige, etc.

The Humanist Movement-defined as " the organisation that interpretes the needs of the Human being and produces the means for advancing from the ground of determination to the ground of freedom " should be framed as a broad and developing movement which generates specific base teams with a human base aming at the same objective.

Renaissance art, with Renaissance Humanist philosophy, spread throughout Europe, affecting both artists and their patrons with the development of new techniques and new artistic sensibilities.

Humanist Canada ( also known as the Humanist Association of Canada, or HAC ) is a national not-for-profit charitable organization promoting the separation of religion from public policy and fostering the development of reason, compassion and critical thinking for all Canadians through secular education and community support.

After the launch of the Humanist International in 1989, the strategy turned once more to the development of the Humanist Movement in a more general form and its organisation structure.

He wrote, and was obsessed with, the relationships that humans establish with one another, their cities and homes, the Humanist movement, and the study of philosophy.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ) is the world union of more than one hundred Humanist, rationalist, irreligious, atheistic, Bright, secular, Ethical Culture, and freethought organizations in more than 40 countries.

but being atheist or agnostic does not, itself, make one a Humanist.

Humanist Macropedius is one of the few famous people to have been born in Gemert, and a school and park have been named after him.

By 2003 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance, his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually erotic statue of David, one of the icons of the Florentine republic, and his great monument to Gattamelata, the first large equestrian bronze to be created since Roman times.

In 2003 he was one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.

In 2003 he was one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.

In 2011, the British Humanist Association campaigned to get atheists, agnostics and other non-believers to tick the " no religion " box in response to the optional religion question in the 2011 census ( as opposed to writing in either a joke religion like " Jedi " or ticking the religion one grew up in ).

Janus Pannonius, although wrote in Latin, counts as one of the most important persons in Hungarian literature, being the only significant Hungarian Humanist poet of the period.

The Humanist vision of humanity was one in which people responded to other people, to social responsibility and to God in a direct way, not through intermediaries, such as the Church.

* Joseph Walker ( attorney ), one of the original 34 signatories to the Humanist Manifesto

Angelo Ambrogini, commonly known by his nickname Poliziano (; anglicized as Politian ; Latin: Politianus ) ( 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494 ) was an Italian Renaissance classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin.

Janus Pannonius, although wrote in Latin, counts as one of the most important persons in Hungarian literature, being the only significant Hungarian Humanist poet of the period.

The second Humanist Manifesto was written in 1973 by Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson, and was intended to update the previous one.

The Humanist Library displays one of the oldest and most homogeneous collections of medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in Europe.

The Norwegian Humanist Association (, HEF ) is currently one of the largest Humanist associations in the world, with 82, 890 members.

In 2003 she was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

There were five 15th-century Humanist Popes, one of whom, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini ( Pius II ), was a prolific author and wrote a treatise on " The Education of Boys ".

" In 2003 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

Since 1971, more than one hundred of Smith's articles and book reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, the Arizona Daily Star, Reason Magazine, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, Inquiry, Cato Policy Report, Liberty, The Voluntaryist, Academic Associates Book News, Journal of Libertarian Studies, and Humane Studies Review.