The International League of Non-religious and Atheists, (German Internationaler Bund der Konfessionslosen und Atheisten, IBKA) is an international association, founded in Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1976 as "International League of Non-religious" (IBDK) and renamed IBKA in 1982. It has approximately 500 members and 11 coorporative Members, as well as a Scientific Council.

Among its objectives, IBKA promotes rationalism

Rationalism

In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...

 and pursues the establishment of human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

 and scientific freedom

Scientific freedom

Scientific freedom is the idea of freedom applied to natural science, in particular the practices of scientific research and discourse, mainly by publication...

, as well as the separation of Church and State

Separation of church and state

The concept of the separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state....

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