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HVD welcomes Federal Labor Court ruling on the dismissal of a chief physician by a Catholic hospital.

Humanist Association invites counseling centers to cooperate.

Association Presidium: A child-friendly world is a core demand of practical humanism.

Humanists welcome the 1st International Day of Friendship in Germany.

HVD focuses on comprehensive medical, ethical and psychosocial counseling.

The Humanist Association of Germany welcomes the fact that the Humanist Union (HU) is actively involved in the debate about state payments to the Protestant and Catholic churches. The ideologically neutral HU has published a compilation of the payments made since 1949, which amount to a total of around 14 billion euros. This does not include the payments made by the GDR, which was considered atheistic, amounting to over 600 million marks between 1949 and 1989.

A two-and-a-half-hour debate on pre-implantation diagnostics is taking place in the Bundestag today. The Humanist Association of Germany has appealed to all members of parliament to support the motion by Ulrike Flach (FDP), Peter Hintze (CDU), Dr. Carola Reimann (SPD) and others.

Practical humanism, as represented by the HVD, is not bound by party politics and, in accordance with its self-image, endeavors to concentrate on what all people can represent.

One hundred years after the first International Women’s Day, the liberation of women is still an unfinished task on a global scale. A lack of sexual self-determination is one of the main problems.

The Humanist Association of Germany (HVD) criticizes the Catholic Church’s continued ban on condoms.