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title: "Prejudice and discrimination"
date: "2025-03-11T12:50:08+00:00"
modified: "2025-03-31T15:04:50+01:00"
url: "https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_perspective/prejudice-and-discrimination/"
post_id: 4888
---

# Prejudice and discrimination

What do humanists believe about freedom and equality? How does this impact their views on gender, race, sexuality, and religion or belief?

[Download humanist perspective](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Prejudice-and-discrimination-humanist-perspective.pdf) (includes perspectives on women’s equality, LGBT rights, challenging racism, and discrimination against the non-religious)

[Humanists UK’s campaigns page on human rights and equality](https://humanists.uk/campaigns/human-rights-and-equality/)

[Activity on John Rawls’ veil of ignorance](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/10/Veil-of-ignorance.pdf)

[Humanist Heritage articles on women’s rights](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Humanist-Heritage-articles-on-womens-rights.pdf)

[Video of Humanists UK patron John Amaechi on anti-racism](http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs9n2v4)

[Humanist Heritage article on the first Universal Races Congress](https://heritage.humanists.uk/first-universal-races-congress/)

[Humanist Heritage article on LGBT Humanists](https://heritage.humanists.uk/lgbt-humanists/)

[Freedom of thought report](http://freethoughtreport.com) – an annual survey on discrimination and persecution against non-religious people in countries around the world

[Humanists in danger](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/10/Humanists-in-danger.pdf)