The objectives for which the World Humanist Forum is established are:

1. to become an instrument for information, exchange of ideas, and discussion among people and institutions from the widest possible spectrum of the world’s cultures and to play a permanently active role in which all pertinent information circulates rapidly among its members.
   
   To this end, it will implement a mechanism that will allow ongoing contact and circulation of information through the development of a website and an electronic bulletin, and will work to develop ways to make connections among people and institutions who could work together but may be hindered by distance.
   
2. to become an internationalist cultural organisation embodying the principle of diversity, considering freedom of conscience and freedom from ideological prejudice to be indispensable conditions for participation.
   1. It will not admit the participation of those who foster discrimination or intolerance.
   2. It will not allow the participation of those who foster violence as a methodology of action for imposing their concepts or ideals, no matter how elevated these concepts and ideals may be.
3. to lay the foundations for a future, worldwide dialogue concerned with developing structural relationships among the phenomena of science, politics, art, and religion. The goal is to study and develop positions on the global problems affecting the world today.
4. to develop a clearer understanding of the important issues of the day to find the best practical formulae for action, including: growing racism and discrimination; the increasing intervention by putative peacekeeping entities in the internal affairs of other countries; the manipulation of human rights as a pretext for intervention; the true state of human rights in all parts of the world; the growth in unemployment worldwide; the increase of poverty in many places and various sectors, even in wealthy societies; the progressive deterioration of health care and education; the activities of secessionist forces; the increase in drug addiction; the increase in suicide; religious persecution and the radicalisation of religious groups; the psychosocial phenomena of alteration and violence; and the real threats of environmental destruction, duly prioritised.