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19-483: Young Humanists International , known as the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation or IHEYO from 2002 to 2019, is the youth wing of Humanists International (known as the International Humanist and Ethical Union from 1952 to 2019), founded in 2002. It aims to network young humanists around the world together, support training and promote humanist values for the age category of 18–35. It

38-426: A network, resources and a joint platform for these societies through which they could make their needs and views known on both a national and international level. The AHS is run by a committee composed of representatives from each society, namely the president and an elected representative. From the committee the executive, composed of a president, secretary, membership officer, and treasurer, are then elected to form

57-612: A perception of political party youth wings as being mere gateways of employment opportunity in the government bureaucracy for younger members, especially in the case of dominant- or one-party systems where a party is ensured of victory at the polls. Political party youth wings mostly consist of young adults . The age requirement for most political party youth wings ranges between a minimum age of 15 years old to an upper age limit of 30 years old (although there are youth wings of political parties that have an upper age limit as high as 35). Youth wings are distinct from student wings , as

76-479: Is IHEYO's annual charity event. Its concept was based on the British student federation AHS 's Non-Prophet Week . Youth wing The term "youth wing" is most often used to refer to the youth wings of political parties ; in such youth wings, ranking or leading members are often seen, upon attainance of the minimum age requirement, as potential leaders or bureaucrats of the main political party. This has led to

95-812: Is a membership body composed of student societies in higher education institutes across the UK. In 2012, it became the student section of the Humanists UK (then known as the British Humanist Association), the UK charity which promotes Humanism and secularism in Britain. Until 2017, it was known as the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist, and Secular Student Societies , and later simply Atheist, Humanist, and Secular Students (AHS). In 2017, member societies voted to rename

114-698: Is an umbrella organisation representing around 40,000 young people across the world. Young Humanists International is the international umbrella organisation for Humanist youth organisations. Its primary mission is to bring into active association youth groups and young humanist individuals throughout the world interested in promoting humanism, as is described in the IHEU Amsterdam Declaration 2002. Young Humanists International brings together people aged 18–35 who describe themselves as humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, skeptics and similar views. The vision of Young Humanists International

133-649: Is customary for organisations with youth sections to have those sections represented as voting delegates at Young Humanists International meetings. For example, the Belgian humanist group DeMens.nu is represented by Humanistische Jongeren; the American Ethical Union is represented in the form of its Future Ethical of Societies wing; and the British group Humanists UK is represented by Young Humanists (UK) and Humanist Students. Young Humanists International

152-694: Is mainly organised in East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, etc.) and West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Cameroon, etc.). The Fourth Annual IHEYO East African Regional Working Group Meeting was held in Kigali on 26–28 August 2015. The American Working group is the newest and launched in Washington DC in May 2015 at the Future of Ethical Societies Annual conference. This working group covers Canada,

171-562: Is organised into regional "working groups", which act as forums through which youth-led humanist organisations can cooperate and coordinate their activities. There are four Working Groups: the Asian Humanist Alliance, African Working Group, European Working Group, and an Americas Working Group. The African Working Group was established around 2005. It organises regional meetings in East and West Africa. The African Working Group

190-542: Is to give a voice to young humanists within the mission of Humanists International. The mission of Humanists International is to build and represent the global humanist movement that defends human rights and promotes humanist values worldwide. It does this by organising international networking events, offering training, connecting youth through social media and by its work in regional working groups. These activities empower its members to achieve their individual, local and regional goals. Young Humanists International members form

209-686: The AHS 'Humanist Students', as well as introducing new structural changes, such as the direct election of the President of Humanist Students by the members of individual societies each year. Through Humanists UK, the organisation is represented internationally as part of Young Humanists International , the youth wing of Humanists International . As 'The AHS', Humanist Students was set up to support both established and newly forming atheist, humanist and secular student groups and give voice which could be heard nationally. It hoped to achieve this by providing

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228-722: The Philippines. The European Working group brings together member organisations in Europe. Humanist groups in Western Europe are typically among the strongest and best-developed in the world, and Working Group participation is often led by dedicated youth sections of European humanist organisations. The Working Group organises annual in-person meetings to coordinate the international exchanges taking place at events organised in Europe, including conferences it organises such as "European Humanist Youth Days". Events Better Tomorrow

247-525: The United States of America, Central America, and South America. The Asian Working Group is a joint humanist effort in this continent to foster humanist values and ideas. Since its inception in 2007, it has published information −bulletins, has had regular meetings and organised events. The Working Group has members in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and

266-411: The core leadership body of the organisation. There is also a sovereign decision-making body within the AHS called the "Caucus". This consists of two representatives from each member society, the executive and the board. They are responsible for electing the executive to manage the organisation on their behalf, determining and directing major policy choices and ratifying applications for membership. It

285-414: The former is not necessarily established on, nor solely focused upon, a student-exclusive basis. Youth wings are not normally considered as factions of a political party, as youth wings are usually intended as youth focused extensions of party policy and ideology rather than being differently ideologised from the leadership of the party proper. However, sometimes they may advocate for different issues within

304-506: The scope of the party ideology than the party as a whole. National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies Humanist Students is the national umbrella organisation for free-thinking , atheist , humanist and secular student societies in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to provide a national voice for non-religious student societies in the UK and help coordinate national activities. The group

323-451: The young humanist communities and campaign for political and cultural change in a diverse range of areas such as religious freedom , women's rights , education rights , abortion rights , LGBTIQ rights , equality , human rights , freedom of speech / thought/belief , public communication of science . Young Humanists International was formally established as the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation (IHEYO) in 2003, but it

342-420: Was not completely a 21st-century construct. The first version of the organisation was launched in 1966, and lasted around ten years. In the 1980s, it was again revived for a similar period of time. But it was not until 2001, when Humanists International (then known as the International Humanist and Ethical Union) started an internship programme that the idea of re-establishing an international humanist youth network

361-497: Was revived in a lasting way. IHEYO was renamed Young Humanists International on 15 February 2019. As IHEYO, the organisation kept a separate membership list from its parent organisation, the International Humanist and Ethical Union. At the 2017 general assembly in Malta, the organisation voted to merge its membership list with the parent organisation as part of the relaunched Humanists International and Young Humanists International. It

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