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Alphabetical Index to International Humanist and Ethical Union 1952-2002. Past, Present and Future Alphabetical index to International Humanist and Ethical Union 1952 - 2002. Past, present and future Alphabetical index to International Humanist and Ethical Union 1952 - 2002. Past, present and future , Bert Gasenbeek and Babu Gogineni, eds. (Utrecht: De Tijdstroom, 2002). This index was compiled by Jan Loman (Humanist Archives). NOTE: The page numbers refer to the PDF ebook and printed versions of the book. abortion : p. 58, 69 - 70, 91, 143 Action for Humanism : p. 142 Action Laïque : p. 37 Adams, Philip : p. 96 Admiraal, Pieter : p. 54 - 55 'Affirmation on homosexuality and bisexuality' : p. 13 Africa : p. 80, ?141 - 143 African Americans for Humanism : p. 92, 141 African Humanists : p. 141 agnosticism : p. 11 alienation : p. 59 'All different - a ll equal: human diversity, human rights , Humanism' ?(2002 Congress theme) : p. 90 Allen ?Jr., Norm R. : p. 92, 141 Allen, Steve : p. 54 Aloni, Shulamit : p. 54, 92 altruism : p. 143 American Ethical Union (AEU) : p. 16 - 17, 19 - 21, 30, 33, 37, 41, 47, 53, 56, 58, 62, 68 American Humanist Association (AHA) : p. 17 - 18, 20, 22, 30, 37, 41, 64 - 65, 68, 145 Les Amis de la Liberté : p. 21 Amnesty International : p. 69 Amsterdam congress 1952 : p. 20 Amsterdam Congress 1974 : p. 19 Amsterdam Declaration (or Manifesto) (1952) : p. 25 - 26, 45 Amy, Jean Jacques : p. 54 Andrysek, Oldrich : p. 82 Anglo - Saxon countries : p. 20 angry Humanism : p. 129 anti - humanist trends : p. 61, 71, 73 Apartheid : p. 36 - 37, 59 appeal of humanism : p. 115 - 116, 139 appeal of religion and churches : p. 116 - 117, 139 Arab humanist conference, Egypt [1994] : p. 83 Arab world : p. 45 Argentina : p. 45, 135, 137 Arion, Frank Martinus : p. 92 Aron , Raymond : p. 39 artistic education : p. 63 Asia : p. 11, 80 associate members : p. 44 associated groups : p. 44 atheism : p. 11, 16, 64, 90, 147 Atheist Centre : p. 54 - 55, 81, 83, 92, 145 atom bomb conference : p. 33 - 34 Australia : p. 21, 36 Austria : p. 16, 20 - 21 Award : p. 92 * Academy World Humanist Award : p. 54 * Distinguished Human Rights Award : p. 54 * Distinguished Humanist Professional Award : p. 100 * Distinguished Humanist Service Award : p. 54, 78, 87 * ?First Humanist Award : p. 48 * Humanis t Laureate Award : p. 54 * Humanist of the Year Award : p. 54, 70 * IHEU awards : p. 13 - 14 * International Humanist Award : p. 14, 19, 30, 40, 46, 51, 53 - 54, 64, 67, 72, 74, 93 * Special Award : p. 18, 53 * Special Award for Service to World Humanism : p. 54 * World Humanist Award : p. 96 * World Humanist Award of the Council for Secular Humanism : p. 54 Babu Gogineni : p. 8 - 9, 86 - 87, 89, 100, 106 - 111, 121 - 122, 13 2, 138, 140 Ban, Jan van den : p. 33 Bangladesh : p. 82, 88, 94 Bauer, Renate : p. 74 Belgian Humanistisch Verbond (Humanist League, HV) : p. 18, 20, 30, 86 Belgium : p. 11, 17 - 18, 21, 30, 32, 86, 119, 130 Berlin, European Humanist Congress 1993 : p. 95 Be rnal, John Desmond : p. 18 Berré, Denise : p. 92 Bez Dogmatu ('Without dogma') : p. 122 Bihar (Third World development) project : p. 40 Bihar project : p. 40, 52 - 53 Bijleveld, Jan : p. 31, 33 Bio - Ethics Network : p. 12 biotechnology : p. 48 black Humanists : p. 141 Blackham, Harold John : p. 18 - 20, 22, 24, 28, 31 - 34, 51, 54 - 55, 57, 65, 99, 114 blacks : p. 141 blasphemy laws : p. 97 Board Meeting : p. 86 Board of D irectors : p. 28, 86 Board resolutions : p. 87 Boelaars, Bert : p. 89 Boeykens, Lily : p. 91 Bombay Bondi, Hermann : p. 73 Bonner, Elena : p. 54 Boomsma, M.H. : p. 33 Boumans, Etienne : p. 98 Boyd? - Orr, Lord John : p. 12, 34, 113 Bradlaugh Bonner, M.C. : p . 20 Brakel, Ernst van : p. 66 - 67, 104 Brezhnev, Leonid : p. 61 British Ethical Union (BEU) : p. 16, 18 - 20, 51 British Humanist Association (BHA) : p. 51, 65, 75 Brock Chisholm, G. : p. 12 Buddhism : p. 59, 133 budget : p. 40 - 42, 44 Buelens, J. : p. 75 Buf falo : p. 75 Bullough, Vern : p. 65 Bund Frei - Religiöser Gemeinden Deutschlands (BFGD) : p. 16, 36 bureaucracy : p. 59 Calder, Lord Richie : p. 48 Campine, Marc : p. 130 - 134 Canada : p. 11, 44, 57, 66, 70 Canadian Humanist : p. 70 capitalism : p. 48 care s ervices : p. 117 - 119 Catholic countries : p. 20 Catholics : p. 57 - 58 Ceaucescu : p. 58 central bureau : p. 66 Centro - Coscienza : p. 44 - 45 ceremonies : p. 118 Ceylon (Sri Lanka) : p. 50 Chairman : p. 18, 30 - 31, 46, 57 - 58, 61 Chairman's Committee : p. 28, 68 Cherry, Matt : p. 82 - 83, 85 China : p. 9, 45, 79, 97 Chomsky, Noam : p. 48 Christian fundamentalism : p. 143 Christian Humanism : p. 144 Christianity : p. 128 chronology of humankind : p. ?voice of iheu 130 - 131, 133 - 134 civil confirmation ceremonies : p. 37 civil liberties : p. 58 civil rights : p. 72 Clausse, Arnould : p. 54 - 55 Club of Rome : p. 59 Co - Chairman : p. 59, 62 - 64 Co - President : p. 64 Cold War : p. 22, 32, 39, 63, 79 coming - of - age ceremony : p. 92, 118 Commissioner for Human Rights (CHR) : p. 6 9 - 70 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) : p. 64 Committee on Growth and Development : p. 69 Committee on Religious Extremism and Rational Inquiry : p. 86 Committee Religious Abuse of Children : p. 86 Committee U niversal Declaration of Human Values : p. 86 common global identity of humanists : p. 89, 96 common humanity : p. 108 common sense : p. 109 Commoner, Barry : p. 46, 48, 53 - 55 CommonSense : p. 98, 145 Communism : p. 22, 32, 62, 71, 79, 143 'communism with a human face' : p. 58 - 59 communist world : p. 45 comparative philosophy : p. 132 - 133 conception outside the womb (IVF) : p. 77 conclusions : p. 102 Conferences, IHEU Regional: * Antwerp 1955 : p. 31 - 32 * India 1955 : p. 31 * New York 1955 : p. 31 conference s, IHEYO : p. 97 * youth conference on birth control, 1969 : p. 50 * youth conference on problems of consumption 1974 : p. 50 conference Latin American 1995 : p. 93 conflicts : p. 135 Congresses, IHEU Regional - * Berlin, European Congress 1993 : p. 95 * Bombay 1996 : p. 84 * ??Hannover Congress 1968 : p. 46 - 47, 50 * ??waar Congress 1982 : p. 71 * Buenos Aires 2000 : p. 90, 95 - 96 * India 1968 : p. 46 * Sydney 2000 : p. 90, 95 - 96 Congresses, IHEU thematic - : p. 71 Congresses, IHEU World - * 1st (Amsterdam 1952) : p. 24 - 25, 34, 55 * 2nrd (London, 1957) : p. 28, 31 - 34 * 3rd (Oslo, 1962) : p. 28, 30, 38 - 40, 42, 46, 49, 52, 67 * 4th (Puteaux, 1966) : p. 46 - 48, 53 * 5th (Boston, 1970) : p. 46, 48 * 6th (Amsterdam, 1974) : p. 43, 46, 50 - 51 * 7th (London, 1978) : p. 53, 66, 71 - 72 * 8th (Hannover, 1982) : p. 62, 73 * 9th (Oslo, 1986) : p. 62, 71, 73 * 10th (Buffalo, 1988) : p. 61 - 62, 70, 74 - 75 * 11th (Brussels, 1990) : p. 8 2, 90 - 91 * 12th (Amsterdam, 1992) : p. 89 - 92 * 13th (Mexico City, 1996) : p. 67, 78, 90, 92 - 93 * 14th (Mumbai, 1999) : p. 90, 94, 132 * 15th (Noordwijkerhout, 2002) : p. 87, 90 * 16th (Paris, 2005) : p. 90 Congress, International Humanist Youth 2002 : p. 9 8 conscientious objection : p. 69 - 70 Conservation Society : p. 47 Constandse, Anton : p. 20 consultative members : p. 21 continuation of IHEU : p. 59 - 60 contraception : p. 58 contribution system : p. 59 Corbière, Emilio J. : p. 95 correspondence club : p. 35 Cotereau, Jean : p. 32 Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH) : p. 83, 143 Council for Secular Humanism : p. 64, 96 Council of Europe : p. 11, 76 - 77, 99 - 100 creativity : p. 124 critics on religion : p. 123 critics on science : p. 123 Cuype rs, Karel : p. 30 - 31 Czechoslovakia : p. 40, 55, 58 Dam, A.J. : p. 35 Daneels, Godfried (cardinal) : p. 58 Datta, Amlan : p. 94 decentralization : p. 85 A declaration of interdependence: A new global ethics ( Paul Kurtz ) : p. 13, 74 definitions of humanism : p. 114, 143 democracy : p. 55, 58, 106 democracy, values of : p. 55 democratic values : p. 9 democratization : p. 72 democratization movement China : p. 97 Den mark : p. 36 Dent, Shirley : p. 127 - 129 destructive cults and sects : p. 97 Deukeren, Hans van : p. 15 development : p. 44, 80 - 83 Development Committee : p. 33 development cooperation : p. 81 development projects : p. 103 Dialogues : p. 18, 40, 57 - 58, 63, 66 Dialogues (Buddhists) : p. 100 Dialogues (Catholics) : p. 57 - 58 Dialogues (Marxists) : p. 57, 63, 70 - 71, 79 Dialogues (Muslims) : p. 100 Dialogues (Protestants) : p. 58 Dijk, Pieter van : p. 69 Dilloway, James : p. 54, 72, 77 discrimination : p. 63 dist ribution of wealth : p. 63 diversity of IHEU : p. 113 dogmatic Humanism : p. 114 Dominiczak, Andrzej : p. 122 - 126 Draper, Peter : p. 51 Dreikurs, Rudolf : p. 31 Dubcek, Alexander : p. 53 - 54, 58 Dubrovnik, Humanist - Marxist dialogue : p. 70 Dutch role in IHE U : p. 102 East - West interactions [=Asia - West] : p. 132 Eastern Europe : p. 79 Eaton resolution : p. 31 - 34 Eaton, Cyrus : p. 33 ecology : p. 48, 50, 55, 72 Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), IHEU representation at : p. 56, 98 Edelm an, Pieter : p. 15 education : p. 72, 146 Egypt : p. 82 Ellis - Jones, Ian : p. 96 Enlightenment : p. 9 environment : p. 46 - 47, 147 - 148 essay contest : p. 34 - 35 Estrella, Hugo : p. 135 - 137 eternal questions : p. 131 ethical aspect : p. 50 ethical culture : p . 11, 16, 25 ethical groups : p. 23 ethical humanism : p. 17, 25, 45, 55, 62, 73 ethical issues : p. 74 Ethiopia : p. 141 - 142 Ethische Gemeinde Wien : p. 16 ethnic cleansing : p. 97, 136 Euro Committee : p. 69, 76 Europe : p. 9, 11 European Committee for t he Promotion of the Interests of Non - Denominational People : p.
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