Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights. It seeks to act as a representative body for non-religious people in the UK.
BHA supporters, including Andrew Copson and Polly Toynbee, taking part in a No Prayer Breakfast event at the Labour Party Conference in 2012
Richard Dawkins accepting the Services to Humanism award at Humanists UK Annual Conference in 2012
Ariane Sherine and BHA Vice President Richard Dawkins at the bus campaign launch
Image: J. A. Hobson
Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision-making.
George Holyoake coined the term "secularism" and led the secular movement in Britain from the mid-19th century.
Conway Hall in London
David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association, speaks at a 2012 conference.
Levi Fragell, former Secretary General of the Norwegian Humanist Association and former president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, at the World Humanist Congress 2011 in Oslo
