The Swiss Centre for Civil Courage is a human rights and freethinking association. The association was founded with the following permanently defined ideal purpose: Promoting and strengthening enlightened values of evolutionary humanism and freethinking, free and critical thinking, scientific and rational knowledge; Promoting and strengthening human rights and equality; Promoting and strengthening social responsibility, solidarity and in particular civil courage with regard to the needs and rights of other humans and living beings and the protection of the environment. The association is particularly actively committed against patriarchal power structures and control mechanisms, against violence or discrimination, as well as against fascism, racism, misogyny and xenophobia, (hetero)sexism, anthropocentrism and ethnocentrism.