title: Council of Australian Humanist Societies
text: # Council of Australian Humanist Societies
  
  The Council of Australian Humanist Societies (CAHS) is an umbrella organisation for Australian humanist societies. It was founded in 1965. It is affiliated with Humanists International. The official symbol of CAHS (and all member organisations) is the Happy Human.
  
  ## Activities
  
  CAHS holds conventions and publishes on humanism.
  
  ## CAHS accepts Humanist International's Minimum statement on Humanism
  
  Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. It stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethic based on human and other natural values in the spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities. It is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.
  
  