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"Education is Not a Crime" campaign gains momentum

Education is Not a Crime, a worldwide campaign drawing attention to the constructive response of the Baha'i community to the Iranian government's systematic denial of university education to young Baha'is, is gaining momentum as it nears its global day of action, 27 February.

Maziar Bahari, a prominent Canadian-Iranian filmmaker and journalist who produced the documentary film “To Light a Candle”, which explores the systematic denail of educational rights in Iran.

President Rouhani's UN speech and the question of human rights in Iran

25 September 2013

NEW YORK — Having heard Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's address to the United Nations today, the world will be watching to see how he will, beyond his general call for hope and moderation around the world, address the essential question of human rights in Iran.

Baha'i sacred site in Baghdad destroyed

June 28, 2013--Baha'i International Community, New York. The worldwide Baha'i community has learned that the house of Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith, in Baghdad, Iraq – a profoundly sacred site known as the Most Great House – has been destroyed.  The precise circumstances surrounding the demolition are not yet clear.

Bani Dugal, the Principal Representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations said: "This deplorable act has robbed people throughout the world of a priceless piece of their spiritual heritage."

A Global Community Reflects

HAIFA, Israel, 4 May 2013 (BWNS) — More than 1,000 representatives of the Baha'i world community gathered here, 29 April-2 May, for a unique global event that was infused with joy, reverence and purpose.

The eleventh International Baha'i Convention marked the 50th anniversary of the inaugural Convention in 1963 at which the Universal House of Justice – the international governing council of the Baha'i Faith – was first elected.

A global election

United Nations Examines Causes of Violence Against Women

NEW YORK — Breaking the cycle of violence against women will require basic changes at the level of culture, attitudes and beliefs – including a fundamental reconception of prevailing notions of power.

These were among the ideas offered to this year's United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by the Baha'i International Community (BIC).

U.S. National Baha'i Governing Council Endorses U.S. Climate Ethics Statement

November 22, 2011

The Climate Ethics Campaign is aiming for 1,000 endorsements of its new climate change statement by November 30th, the day the campaign plans to officially release and circulate the statement on Capitol Hill.

A representative of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha‘is of the United States recently endorsed the statement, titled “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change”

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