Is your organization, association or NGO involved in addressing key issues in your country or community related to the environment, peace, resolving armed or border conflicts, human, gender or indigenous rights, poverty, equality of rights and opportunities? In short, working to create better conditions and a better future for your community and society?

Then, imagine this. In this forum, a network of organizations across the different Asian countries working in different fields are coming together to connect with each other, to interchange and to work together in their respective fields towards common goals. It’s like being in a large exhibition hall with many different booths. And at the center is the booth of the World Humanist Forum.  Each booth belongs to a participating organization. It has a poster that reads:

We support and are a part of the WHF. We work to overcome all forms of discrimination and use non-violence in all our respective actions.

If this is so, your organization is welcome to be a part of the World Humanist Forum-Asia, which is being organized by the Humanist Movement and its organisms.

Why Join?

The initiators say:

“We humanists as many other people, believe that the world is living a profound crisis. Not just social, economic, political, environmental, but also psychological and moral. The pandemic we have lived in for the last 2 years has accelerated this crisis in all its dimensions. In fact, it is a profound crisis of civilization. We are more and better connected than never before in human history, yet the feeling of loneliness, distance, and antagonism to one another is growing fast. Institutions and traditional beliefs are falling, being inadequate to respond to the present problems. Geopolitical maps are been re-drawn increasing the risk of severe conflicts and the use of atomic weapons…

In this world that is losing its senses, it becomes more urgent than never before to launch a message of faith in the Human being, of faith in the future, of nonviolence and conscious evolution for mankind.

We must pave the way towards a Universal Human Nation that is already born across the earth.

This is the message of Universalist Humanism (Siloism) and all progressive teachings along history.

That is the reason why we are launching the Forums, not just in Asia but in all the regions of the earth, to remind humanity of the direction and purpose of the evolution of our species.

We expect the Forums to become permanent in the future and to become beacons for a humanity in turmoil.”

Who can join?

Any organization working to create better conditions in their community or society on the key issues affecting human life in a non-violent and non-discriminatory way can be a part of the Forum.

What is in the works, going forward?

The World Humanist Forum-Asia is in the stage of being built and shaped. At present, there are about 25 organizations affiliated with the network. Activities on the run-up to an Asia-wide Forum are to reach out to different organizations in order to create the necessary links for the Forum. Moving forward, the Forum will be a space where online events on mutual issues and interests will be organized, where the different affiliates can serve as influencers for their causes, and can plan joint activities with other like-minded orgs.

How can you join?

You can register your organization on the website https://www.whfasia.org/. And it would be great to send an email with a letter of interest and a short backgrounder to: World Humanist Forum  at whfasia@gmail.com. The team and members of the Forum meet every Sunday so should you wish to know more, introduce your org, meet other members, kindly indicate in your email so that you can receive a link to Sunday meetings.