Humanist Mutual Aid Network promotes the ideals in Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles, written by Rodrigue Tremblay. 

Our Humanism

Humanist Mutual Aid Network (HuMAN) operates world-wide. We support humanists.

We promote the Ten Humanist Principles (above), plus our HuMAN Policies and the Humanist Global Oath (written by Mubarak Bala).

Our HuMAN Policies Are:

1. We provides maximum transparency to our donors, in Thank You emails, photos, and receipt copies. Our partners must respond quickly (within three days) to our questions, and requests, or the partnership is cancelled.

2. We do not provide emergency funding and our priority is to fund only humanists.

3. Our partners & advisors cannot ask other HuMAN partners, advisors, Board members, or donors for money. If a partner does that, they’re disqualified from future funding. Requests for funding must be made formally via channels on our website under “Info” titled “Grants.”

3. We require 100% honesty from our partners. We have a one-strike-you’re-out policy - if funds are misused by a partner, or they send us a budget that is ‘padded’, we end our relationship with that partner.

4. Our directors, advisors, partners and recipients respect each other and everyone else in the world - even religious people! We never attack or ridicule each other or align ourselves with people who attack others.

5. We require all our members and partners to represent us in a positive way, by exhibiting compassion, fairness, and understanding, in their speech and actions in the public world.

6. We’ve believe ridiculing religion is counter-productive and we require applicants and members to refrain from doing this.

7. Our partners need to send in reports - with photos and budget explanations - within 50 days after receiving funding. If they fail to send in reports, the partnership is discontinued.

Humanist Principles

The first humanist principle is “Dignity and Equality” - it “proclaims the natural dignity and inherent equality of all human beings.” This first principle is the most important principle, it asks that we respect all human beings, and give them dignity.

Humanists believe every human being deserves respect regardless of culture, race, nationality, gender or religion. Humanists believe everyone has the right to live free of ill treatment and cruelty. We should treat every human being with kindness. We should treat them in the way that we ourselves would like to be treated. Humanists believe no one should be physically hurt, or insulted or verbally mistreated. No one should be a slave, or paid unfairly for their work.

Humanists believe we should behave in a way that helps our community. We should act in ways that benefit our community. Humanists believe we need to be positive with our words and our actions — are we helping our community, or hurting it? Are we acting in a kind way towards our family members and our neighbors?

To be kind to others means that we do not physically hurt them, we do not say bad words about them, or cheat or steal from them. We are kind to them so that they can have a happy life, and we ask others to be kind to us in the same way.

We believe humans have the ability and the power to make the world a kind, just, and loving place, and we are happy to do whatever we can to help create a wonderful world.

Humanism is belief in human power, through intelligence, education in school, and kindness and generosity towards others - to create positive change in the world.

As humanists, we believe that men and women are equal, we believe boys and girls should be treated the same, we believe boys and girls have the same value as human beings. We believe men and women should never seek control over each other. We believe girls have the same rights as boys, girls should be encouraged to go to school, girls and women should be encouraged to work at all jobs, to own property, to be successful at businesses. Women should all be encouraged to be leaders, to run for President, and chairpersons, and mayors, because they are as capable as men at being leaders.

Humanists do not believe any ideas that say men and women are not equal. If there are religious ideas that say women are not as important as men, humanists do not believe those religious ideas. If there are tribal ideas that say women are not as valuable as men, humanists do not believe those tribal ideas. Humanists believe all people are equal - men and women are equal, people in one country are equal to people in another country, poor people deserve as much respect as rich people, old people deserve as much respect as young people, people in one tribe deserve as much respect as people in another tribe, people in one race are the equal of people in another race, people in one caste are the equals of people in another caste.

Humanists also believe children deserve respect and dignity and love. Humanists believe children in school should be treated with love and kindness. Humanists believe children should never be physically hurt, or hit with a stick, at school or at home. At humanist schools, children are to be treated with kindness. Humanist teachers must treat all the students with kindness.

We believe humans should learn through education at secular schools how to make our lives better. We believe studying and learning new ways to help one another is very valuable.

To conclude, the first principle of Humanism is to treat everyone with Kindness, Respect, and Generosity. Humanist Global Charity wants to treat you with love and kindness and we encourage you to treat each other with love and kindness.

Humanists believe people have the right to own their lives.

We believe killing people is bad, because it “steals” the lives of other people. We believe war and the killing that takes place in war, is ethically wrong. We must never go to war, except to defend ourselves. Humanists are also opposed to executions and we believe prisoners should be treated with kindness.

Humanists believe laws must be fair. If people are accused of a crime, they need to be given a quick trial, so they are not kept in jail a long time. They must be tried quickly. If they are innocent, they need to be released immediately. If they are found guilty, their punishment must be fair. Humanists believe all people are the same. We do not believe governments or religions when they tell us certain people are evil. We need to let each other live.

Humanists believe people should treat animals with kindness while they are alive.

Humanists believe men and women, boys and girls, have the right to decide what to do with their bodies. We believe no one should force anyone to do something with their body that they don’t want to do. Rape is very wrong. Humanists believe boys and girls should receive sex education in school. We encourage teachers, and the medics at our clinics, to properly inform school children about their bodies and sex. Humanists also believe it is up to the woman to decide if she wants to get pregnant or if she does not want to get pregnant.

Humanists believe abortion is a decision that a woman gets to make. If she wants to get an abortion, it is right for her, because it is her body and she gets to decide. She has the right to do that. Humanists believe no government and no religion has the right to tell women how to manage their bodies.

We also believe birth control methods are a woman’s decision. Humanists believe condoms should be used, if either person having sex wants a condom to be used. We believe condoms and other birth control methods can be used, because people have the right to decide how large their family should be.

Humanists believe people have the right to love and marry whoever that want, as long as both people are adults. We believe people should decide who they want to love and marry, not their parents. We do not think “arranged marriages” are right. They do not give freedom to people. Parents should let their sons and daughters decide who to marry.

Humanists also believe married people have the right to divorce each other. We do not believe government laws and religious laws have the right to tel you who to marry or not marry, or have the right to tell you that you cannot get a divorce. We believe people should be free, to decide who to marry and when to divorce.

We also believe it is a human right to marry someone the same gender as you. People have the right to decide who to love and who to marry, as long as both are adults.

Humanists believe mothers and fathers have a serious responsibility. They must take care of their children. They must keep their children fed, clothed and educated. We believe it is wrong not to take care of children properly.

Humanists believe property needs to be respected. If you find something valuable that is not yours, you need to find out who it belongs to, and return it. We need to respect the property of others.

Humanists believe owning something, like a farm, means that you need to take care of it, work at it, and improve it. You must use what you have to help your community.

Humanists believe people have the right to not have their property ruined by pollution. If you own farmland, no one upstream has the right to pollute your water. You do not have the right to pollute water either, you must keep it clean for people downstream.

This is the second principle of humanism - To Respect the Life and Property of Others. To let People Decide What to do with their lives and their Bodies, and to help others also take care of their lives.

Humanist Global Oath

by Mubarak Bala

I ascertain, that I understand Humanism and live my life as a humanist, with human, and all life interests in mind, as well as environment, and the good of the planet.

I believe the future of our human species, is determined only by natural occurrences, and it is up to us, humans to determine our destiny, for good.

I know that the imagined gods and angels, the devils & demons, magic and illusions are all part of a grand superstitious belief system, enforced by uninformed humans and over pampered institutions that hitherto contributed nothing positive to the journey of life, and nothing to the betterment of humanity; only science and reason, fed by enlightenment, rational thought, and education, changed our collective destiny for good.

I know well, that books normally called holy, by religions, such as the Koran, the Bible, Egyptian Book of the dead, or the Bhaghvad Gita, are clueless books that came from ancient folklore, and mythology. Allah, YHWH, Anubis, Krishna and Thor, are only stories of imagined monsters to scare the gullible and give power and resources to people undeserving of such.

I totally understand that as I was before I was born, nonexistent, this is how my life would be, after I die, not existing, and just as I was neither suffering nor enjoying myself a thousand and a million years ago, this is how I will be, after my neurons die out. I am satisfied with this existence, and would do my best to live it fully, without harm to others; The imagined green gardens of paradise, heaven, an afterlife, with all the goodies of heaven, sex and dancing are all wishful thinking from desert beaten folks who hope to have a longer, more fulfilling life.

I know that prayer is a waste of time, and may only be forced to worship, out of fear that I may be harmed, or ostracized from society, otherwise, I am free and a realist. I also know that temples worship such as shrines, blood sacrifice, body parts for ritual, mosques and churches have no power, and wield nothing. Physics does not obey magic. Chemistry is not alchemy. Biology is evident in medicine and yes we evolved. We did not come from ribs of others, nor did we emerge from the blue eyes of giants.

I know that religion is a hindrance to human progress, and an inhibitor for our hegemony and unity. I see faith to dogma as an unnecessary indoctrination suffered from childhood perpetuated, sadly parents who hand us over to priests and clerics without caring if we were abused or traumatized. I pledge to never do such to innocent children under my care and guardianship.

I uphold the 10 Humanist Principles. I support the right of people to their own bodies, and equal rights for all gender and sexuality, I support democracy as the best way for a people to determine their governments, I support the child's right to education and oppose abuse such as the Almajiri System and other Childbride practices ignored by governments.

I am honest in all my relationships with others, just I have empathy towards others.

I pledge myself, now and in the future, to be a Humanist activist, wherever and however I could, safely, and would do my best to encourage others to consider or live up to the Humanist worldview.