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AAI is a global federation of atheist groups and individuals. We are the only atheist group accredited with UN Special Consultative status.

What we do

AAI speaks up for atheists everywhere. We support atheists in danger and we educate people about atheism. Our goal is a secular world.

AAI Annual Report 2021/22

We have been busy helping atheists, opposing blasphemy laws, saving victims, giving humanitarian aid and much more.
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Review of work | ARAP | Humanitarian aid | Campaigns
Finances
Board changes | The future
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I really want to thank AAI for their continuous help after my husband’s (Mubarak Bala) disappearance since 28th April, 2020. AAI has been helping me both financially and emotionally because Mubarak was taken away when our son was 6 weeks old.
Mrs A Mubarak, Wife of Mubarak Bala
Mrs A Mubarak
AAI came to my aid from the very moment I have contacted them, emotionally, financially, and finally to safety. They did help me survive and supported me emotionally when I had no one to lean on! I will forever be thankful for them and will never forget what they did for me.
Solal Mahdi Ahmed, Saudi Arabian ex-Muslim
Solal Mahdi Ahmed

Atheist Support Network

Do you have the freedom to believe or not believe in a religion? In many countries, nonbelievers do not have this freedom, and in thirteen countries, nonbelievers face arrest or a death sentence!
Atheist Alliance International has been working to help atheists and ex-Muslims for years but we significantly ramped up our efforts in 2019 by developing the Atheist Support Network (ASN).
Read more about this life-saving work ↠

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Eagle’s View Humanitarian Primary School in Kaira village, Jinja Uganda. The school adopted a fact-based, humanist education curriculum that emphasizes the importance of science and critical thinking. Last year in the National Primary Leaving Examination the school registered a superb performance in grading topping the entire district. Due to its performance, the school now has 347 students which is an extraordinary number for a rural school in any part of the world. Unfortunately, the school is going through a great challenge. On November 2022 the lease of land where the school was founded lapsed and due to inheritance-related issues the owner was unwilling to extend the lease. However, with the help of a few generous people, the school purchased approximately two acres of land where we now wish it to thrive.
In the new education year, the school is conducting classes in temporary structures without any protection from stormy or rainy weather. The temporary classrooms need roofing, beams, and poles.
With your donation, you can help make this school become a safe place for many more children from rural areas around Jinja.
You can get regular updates about the school from its website and Facebook page.
Please donate or share.
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Atheist Alliance International3 weeks ago
This week we are joined by our affiliate, Israeli Atheists, to discuss the ongoing protests across Israel for secular democratic values against the far-right religious zealots in the new government coalition:

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Israeli atheist, Amir, joins us to discuss the recent protests about the "hijacking" of Israel's democratic processes and attempts to subvert the Supreme Cou...
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Atheist Alliance International3 weeks ago
Hindutva terrorists attack atheist activist Bairi Naresh today in Hanmakonda town, Telangana, India.
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Atheist Alliance International3 weeks ago
AAI affiliate, Israeli Atheists, live from the protests in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu's unholy alliance with far-right religious extremists who are seeking to undermine democracy and human rights in the country:
https://www.facebook.com/768809113/videos/916734179519674/
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Atheist Alliance International4 weeks ago
Muwanguzi Rogers is a humanitarian person with a passion for the education and welfare of children. It was important to him that children in rural Uganda get a quality education. After completing his teacher’s certificate in Primary School Education, he left city life and dedicated himself to educating children in rural Uganda.
In 2017, he and a group of his friends founded Eagle’s View Humanitarian Primary School in Kaira village, Jinja Uganda. The school adopted a fact-based, humanist education curriculum that emphasizes the importance of science and critical thinking. Last year in the National Primary Leaving Examination the school registered a superb performance in grading topping the entire district. Due to its performance, the school now has 347 students which is an extraordinary number for a rural school in any part of the world. Unfortunately, the school is going through a great challenge. On November 2022 the lease of land where the school was founded lapsed and due to inheritance-related issues the owner was unwilling to extend the lease. However, with the help of a few generous people, the school purchased approximately two acres of land where we now wish it to thrive.
In the new education year, the school is conducting classes in temporary structures without any protection from stormy or rainy weather. The temporary classrooms need roofing, beams, and poles.
With your donation, you can help make this school become a safe place for many more children from rural areas around Jinja.
You can get regular updates about the school from its website and Facebook page.
Please donate or share.
Atheist Alliance International
Atheist Alliance International4 weeks ago
The murder of Avijit Roy marked the beginning of a spate of killings in Bangladesh. In the coming months, machete-wielding assailants, in the name of their religion, slaughtered secular bloggers, publishers, university teachers, and free-thinker activists one by one.

Yet the Bangladeshi atheist activists continue to fight authoritarian ideologies. Bangladesh is a country with many blasphemy cases. Atheist Alliance International is currently supporting nearly a dozen victims of blasphemy laws in Bangladesh. This number continues to increase because of the never-to-give-up nature of the Bangladeshi secular activist community.

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Atheist Alliance International is an organization of volunteers working to make the world more secular and a safe place for atheists. The income to support our work comes from our members and donors. Please help us. Make a one-off or regular donation, and we will put your money to good use. Thank you!

Atheism is a Ground for Asylum

In a very important decision by a Greek Court, atheism has been recognized as a legitimate ground for claiming asylum!  This is the first time a Greek court has made this determination, and we believe, a first anywhere in the world. Atheism is now recognised as a ground for the vulnerability of a person in a fundamentalist religious state.
It can now be argued, in Europe at least, that atheists are at special risk in some Islamic countries and, consequently, need to be protected.
Full story here
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Atheists in Lebanon:

Human Rights Violation Report

Our affiliate, Freethought Lebanon, has published a study called: Atheists in Lebanon: Human Rights Violations. It is the first study of its kind itemizing discrimination against atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers in Lebanon.
The findings of this study are presented in four sections.
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Umar Farouk is FREE!

Today, prison guards escorted Umar Farouk to a Kano court where he was handed over to our lawyers. Sixteen-year-old Umar had been found guilty of blasphemy in a Kano magistrates court on August 10 and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with menial labor.
AAI engaged a legal team in Nigeria to appeal his sentence.
Full Story here ↠

Atheist Artist Rescued

A persecuted LGBT, atheist was relocated from a Muslim country with the assistance of our Atheist Support Network and the generous support of donors like you… Thank you.
Full story here ↠

Affiliate success

UNHRC resolution condemns witchcraft

After six years of tireless effort by our affiliate, the Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS), the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN) and many NGO’s, universities, and subject matter experts, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has unanimously approved a resolution ‘condemning witchcraft and harmful religious practices’ at its 47th session.
Read more here

Know someone who loves books?

Books are a wonderful present that can last a lifetime. We have curated a treasure trove of books on all aspects of atheism, and other topics too—including a selection of books suitable for kids.
Many of these books will be especially valuable for people who are doubting their religion and for people who have recently discarded their religion and want to learn more.
See the full selection here

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Eight years since Avijit Roy’s assassination
Today, February 26, 2023, marks eight years since Avijit Roy's assassination. He was killed for being an outspoken advocate of reason and science. On the ...
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Iran: More executions, more protests in Iran, UK and everywhere. Silence is inhuman, unethical and self-defeating
Submitted by Maryam Namazie. For more information, please contact her at: m.namazie@onelawforall.org.uk. On 7 January, Iran executed another two young men on charges of ‘spreading ...
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An Ex-Muslim: How and Why I Became an Atheist
The following was submitted to the blog by one of AAI's followers. The writer's name is being withheld to protect family still in Afghanistan. ...
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Atheists in Kenya Society faces fierce legal battle seeking its deregistration.
Introduction All around the world, Atheists and non-religious people face increasing number of risks every day for holding opinions that distances itself from beliefs in ...
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AAI supported blasphemy case triumphs in Bangladesh
In October 2020, a mob combined of Muslim and Hindu extremists staged protest rallies demanding the arrest and death penalty of Mohammed Alam, a secular ...
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Iranian Woman Killed By Morality Police
Mehsa Amini, was a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police for wearing an improper hijab, was beaten in their custody, went into a coma, ...
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Kano Appeal Court orders Yahaya to be retried for blasphemy
On 10 August 2020, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by hanging by the Kano Upper Shariah Court sitting at Hausawa ...
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The Khomeinis of Burmese Theravada Buddhism: Buddhist monks, Military Junta & Political Buddhism
Myanmar has been in turmoil for eighteen months since the military overthrew a democratically elected government in February 2021. During these eighteen months, people in ...
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Sex, Race, Religion, & Class in Myanmar
Myanmar’s military had been terrorizing its people since 1962. In 1962, there was a student uprising against the military coup. As a result, the whole ...
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