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Tag "Human rights" details:

tag name: Human Rights

web link: Human_Rights

  type: General
referring tags: Amnesty; LGBTQ

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1.   from the main catalog (108 results)

  1. 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995. Also available as a zipped archive: <a href="ht...
  2. Bahá'í International Community. 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (2008). — Baha'i International Community’s Statement on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universa...
  3. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith (2018). — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
  4. Dan Rather. American Dream, The: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation (2001). — Commentary on Baha'i persecutions, by a famous TV news anchor.
  5. Universal House of Justice. Amnesty International (1993). — Baha'is may work with but should not hold membership in Amnesty International.
  6. Meriam Wagdy Azmi. Anti-Secular Regulation of Religious Difference in Egypt, The (2021). — Religious minorities lack recognition by the government. Secularism could remedy this, but some argu...
  7. John Paul Vader. August Forel Defends the Persecuted Persian Bahá'ís: 1925-1927 (1986). — History of Forel's involvement with the Faith. Includes correspondence from Shoghi Effendi.
  8. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Báb on the Rights of Women, The (2023). — Statements of the Bab on issues such as mutʿah and tahlil marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divo...
  9. Shoghi Effendi and Universal House of Justice et al United States Bahá'í National Center, comp. Bahá'í Approach to Non-Involvement in Partisan Political Activity (2022). — Resource for individual and group study, in light of the current civil and political unrest in the U...
  10. Bahá'í International Community. Bahá'í Declaration of Human Obligations and Rights, A (1947). — The source of human rights is the endowment of qualities, virtues and powers which God has bestowed ...
  11. Wendi Momen. Bahá'í Faith and the Equality, Rights, and Advancement of Women, The: A Survey of Principles, Praxis, and Discourse (2023). — Equality of women and men; education, advancement, and rights of women and girls; their application ...
  12. Bahá'í International Community. Baha'i Institute Of Higher Education, The: A Creative And Peaceful Response To Religious Persecution In Iran (1999). — Overview of the history and architecture of BIHE, the independent, full-fledged, yet completely dece...
  13. Bahá'í International Community. Bahá'í Question, The: Cultural Cleansing in Iran (2008).
  14. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, ed. Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights (2001). — Articles by Kiser Barnes, Greg Duly, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Graham Hassall, Darren Hedley, Nazila...
  15. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
  16. Akbar E. Torbat. Brain Drain from Iran to the United States, The (2002). — Excerpt from article mentioning the exodus of Baha'i intelligentsia from Iran in 1979, and the Baha'...
  17. Chichi Layor. Bringing Rights Home: Human Rights and the Institution of the Family (2001). — The role of family rights in contemporary human rights discourse, Baha’i principles relating to fa...
  18. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Calling, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (2017). — Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On t...
  19. Capital Punishment and Amnesty International (n.d.). — Letter from the House to Amnesty International on the death penalty.
  20. Naseem Kourosh. Cold Winter in North Africa, A: The Case of the Bahá'ís in Egypt (2012). — Contemporary history of the Egyptian government's refusal to issue identification cards to Baha'is.
  21. Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
  22. Salim A. Nakhjavani. Constitutional Coherence and the Legal Status of the Bahá'í Community of Iran (2016). — Constitutional coherence as a process norm; unfulfilled constitutional promises; aspects of the Iran...
  23. Firaydoun Javaheri. Constructive Resilience (2018). — How the perseverance of the Baha'is in Iran has resulted in the generality of the Iranian people beg...
  24. Sulayman S. Nyang. Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity (1999). — Contains only brief mention of Baha'is, but discusses the Iranian Revolution and related topics.
  25. Bahá'í International Community. Declaración bahá'í sobre obligaciones y derechos humanos, 1947 (1947). — Declaración de la Comunidad Internacional Baha'i ante la Conferencia Internacional de las Naciones ...
  26. Marjan Nirou. Disinvestment: Is It a Bahá'í Issue? (1986). — Economic sanctions as a response to apartheid, the background of South Africa, Baha'i approaches to ...
  27. Universal House of Justice. Egypt, Bahá'í Community of, and Religious Identity (2006). — Message to the Baha'is of Egypt in the wake of a Supreme Administrative Court decision in Cairo that...
  28. Jonathan Patrick. Examination of the Cultural Relativity of Human Rights, An (2001). — On the discourse between proponents of the universality of human rights, and those of their cultural...
  29. Sheila Banani. Eyes of the Children, The (1986). — One poem inspired by female infanticide in China.
  30. Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Faith Denied, A: The Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran (2006). — The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center's account of persecutions of Baha'is of Iran (2006).
  31. Sen McGlinn. Family Law in Iran (2001). — Detailed overview of 20th-century Iranian laws regarding marriage, divorce, marriage rights and duti...
  32. Robert Weinberg. First Obligation, The: Lady Blomfield and the Save the Children Fund (1998). — Bio prepared for the UK Baha'i Centenary (1998-99).
  33. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Foreigner: From an Iranian Village to New York City and the Lights That Led the Way (2019). — Biography of a young boy in Nayriz, Iran in the mid 20th-century, his reflection on the sad society;...
  34. Naghme Naseri Morlock. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States (2023). — The denial of a national identity of Baha'is in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differ...
  35. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Homosexuality and Civil Rights (2011). — Brief comments on the apparent contradiction between eliminating all prejudice, including against ho...
  36. Universal House of Justice. Homosexuality and Civil Rights (2010). — Although sexual relations are to be restricted to marriage between a man and woman and Baha’is are...
  37. Bahá'í International Community. Hora Decisiva para todas las Naciones (1995). — Declaración de la Comunidad Internacional Baha'i con motivo del 50 aniversario de Naciones Unidas ...
  38. Michael Curtotti. Human Rights: Reflections from a Bahá'í Viewpoint (2001). — Born in modern times, the Baha’i Faith addresses human rights in the language of modernity but als...
  39. Kiser Barnes. Human Rights and Multiculturalism (2001). — The concept of human rights must be enriched by spiritual principles. They rest on universal princip...
  40. Amnesty International. Human Rights and Religious Faith (1986). — A statement from Amnesty International/USA, published by request.
  41. Greg Duly. Human Rights and the Rights of the Child: Implications for Children's Participation in the Bahá'í Community (2001). — Are human rights universal? Do rights have spiritual or religious influences? What is the relevance ...
  42. Human Rights in the Bahá'í Writings (2001). — Brief compilation on human rights from the writings of Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-Baha, and Shoghi Effendi.
  43. Reuters. Human Rights Watch on Persecution of Baha'is in Iran (1997). — Two articles covering a report by Human Rights Watch on the treatment of the Baha'is and other minor...
  44. Universal House of Justice. Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts (2015). — A letter to and response from the House about why Baha'is do not condemn the 2014 attacks on Gaza, a...
  45. Geoffrey Cameron. In the Face of Oppression (2011). — The Baha'is in Iran have long been persecuted, but stand strong in their pursuit of a just society.
  46. Christopher Buck and Kevin Locke. Indigenous Messengers of God (2021). — PowerPoint for Zoom presentation “Divine Teachers of the Americas” by Kevin Locke, hosted by Gre...
  47. Maureen Sier. Indigenous rights and women's rights in the Samoan Bahá'í community (1999).
  48. Universal House of Justice. Individual Rights and Freedoms (1988). — An important and often-quoted letter about rights and freedom of expression in the Baha'i community,...
  49. Dan Wheatley. International Criminal Court: A Bahá'í Perspective (2001). — Brief history of the ICC, and Baha'i support of it.
  50. Bahá'í International Community. Interreligious and Intercultural Cooperation (2007). — Statement to the United Nations on best practices and strategies for interreligious and intercultura...
  51. Thomas Schirrmacher. Iran: Suppression of religious freedom and persecution of religious minorities: case studies (2009). — The legal status of non-Shiite Muslims, Baha'is, and various Christian confessions in Iran.
  52. Sepehr Zabih. Iran since the Revolution (1982). — Discussion of the Iranian constitution, with one passing mention of Baha'is not being recognized.
  53. Saman Sabeti. Iran's Systemic Denial of Access to Higher Education (2017). — Discrimination as embedded in the Iranian Constitution and in higher education since 1979; dismissal...
  54. Allen K. Jones. Iranian Refugees: The Many Faces of Persecution (1984). — A paper detailing the persecution and displacement of Iranian refugees (including Baha'is) due to re...
  55. Christopher Buck. Islam and Minorities: The Case of the Baha'is (2003). — "The Baha'i question" is really a test case for whether Islam can legitimately claim to respect huma...
  56. Rowshan Mustapha. Islám: The Road Ahead: Reflections of a Bahá'í on Islamic Topics (2014). — Questions about the finality of religion, the Day of Judgment, the role of Jesus and the Mihdi, and ...
  57. Gregory Paul P. Meyjes. Language and Universalization: A 'Linguistic Ecology' Reading of Bahá'í Writings (1999). — How the promotion of linguistic minority rights may coincide with promotion of an International Auxi...
  58. Joshua Lincoln. Law and International Order: Proceedings of the First European Bahá'í Conference on Law and International Order: Review (1997). — Review of conference proceedings, highlighting Baha'i law, governance, human rights, and future pers...
  59. Universal House of Justice. Letter on responding to attitude changes on homosexuality (2014). — Challenges centrality of sexuality to life; confronts dichotomy of condemnatory and accepting attitu...
  60. Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Haifa. Letter to the Friends, Throughout the East and the West, through the Spiritual Assemblies (1938). — 3-page report by Z. N. Zeine on questions directed at a Dr. 'Abdu'llah Jawid in Khorasan "as a resul...
  61. Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age (1996).
  62. Universal House of Justice. Millennium Forum (2000).
  63. Barney Leith. More Constructive Encounter, A: A Bahá’í View of Religion and Human Rights (2007). — Relationship between religion and human rights, and the work of the Baha’i community in wholeheart...
  64. Paula Bidwell. Native American Vision and the Teachings of 'Abdu'l-Baha (2011). — Presentation addressing issues of concern to Native Americans, cast in the light of statements of Ab...
  65. Bahá'í International Community. Nature of the Persecution against the Bahá'ís in Iran (2010). — The situation of the Baha'is in Iran in 2010; historical and legal context; denial of individual and...
  66. Christopher Buck. 'Never Again': Kevin Gover's Apology for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (2006). — This article does not mention the Baha'i Faith, but was published in a social justice and human righ...
  67. Douglas Martin. Next Stage, The (2013). — Baha'i scholars find themselves at a stage in the Faith’s development where they must construct a ...
  68. Bui Tyril. Nonpartisan Engagement in Public Affairs: A Critical Analysis of the Bahá'í Approach to Dialogue, Democracy, and Diplomatic Relations (2009). — How to address the dilemma of protesting human rights abuses in Iran while remaining non-partisan. L...
  69. Bahá'í International Community. Papel de la Juventud en los Derechos Humanos, El (1985).
  70. Bahá'í International Community. Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran: 1979-1986: A 7-year campaign to eliminate a religious minority (1986). — Overview of activities and propaganda against Baha'is in Iran, and the responses of the United Natio...
  71. Dan Wheatley. Philosophical and Religious Contributions to the Emergence of Human Rights: The Bahá'í Perspective (2012). — While some forms of religious extremism are contemptuous of human rights, and human rights are somet...
  72. Johanna Pink. Post-Quranic Religion Between Apostasy and Public Order, A: Egyptian Muftis and Courts on the Legal Status of the Baha'i Faith (2003). — On how Egypt has adapted and responded to the Baha'i Faith; legal issues for Muslim jurists and the ...
  73. Bahá'í International Community. Prevención de Discriminaciones y Protección a las Minorías, 1988 (1988).
  74. Bahá'í International Community. Prevención de Discriminaciones y Protección a las Minorías, 1989 (1989).
  75. Brian D. Lepard. Protecting the Human Family: Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and Bahá'í Principles (2003). — The moral and legal problems raised by the use of military force to aid human rights victims. Releva...
  76. Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
  77. Ian Kluge. Reason and the Bahá'í Writings: The Use and Misuse of Logic and Persuasion (2001). — How to study the Baha'i Writings through the use of logic.
  78. June Thomas. Reconsidering the Civil Rights Era in the Footsteps of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2022). — On principles of racial prejudice and 1960s South Carolina, including the fallacy of racial prejudic...
  79. United States Department of State. Ralph D. Wagner, comp. References to the Bahá'í Faith in the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (1991). — Excerpts from the State Department's annual compilation of Country Reports on Human Rights Practices...
  80. Michael L. Penn. Reflections on Human Rights, Moral Development, and the Global Campaign to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence (2001). — A review some of the most significant developments in human rights law designed to contribute to the...
  81. David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). — Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en soc...
  82. Steven Scholl. Releasing the Captive from His Chains (1986). — Baha'i activism for human rights, and involvement with Amnesty International. Includes response by D...
  83. Graham Hassall. Religious Freedom in the Asia Pacific: The Experience of the Bahá'í Community (1998). — Some aspects of the Baha'i Community's approach to one human rights initiative, the "Declaration on ...
  84. Christopher Buck. Religious Minority Rights (2008). — Discussion of three minority religions within Islamic states that have experienced persecution and h...
  85. Naghme Naseri Morlock. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival (2021). — Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Baha'i community res...
  86. Dalia Maleck. Report on Citizenship Law: Egypt (2021). — Section on the Baha'i minority and statelessness, and al-Azhar's fatwa denouncing Egyptian Baha'is a...
  87. Pym Trueman. Return of the Dreamtime (1995). — Brief history of Christianity and missionary work in Samoa and Australia, and how native Samoan cust...
  88. Geoffrey Cameron and Tahirih Danesh. Revolution without Rights?, A: Women, Kurds and Baha'is searching for equality in Iran (2008). — Discussion from the Foreign Policy Centre in London on the religious, legal, and social obstacles to...
  89. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh. Right to Education, The: The Case of the Bahá'ís in Iran (2001). — On the ongoing harassment of Baha’i students and educators resulting from the state-sponsored reli...
  90. Graham Hassall. Rights to Human and Social Development: A Survey of the Activities of the Bahá'í International Community (2001). — BIC contributions to thinking about human rights and social development have centered on 6 themes: a...
  91. Roshan Danesh and Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
  92. Bradford W. Miller. Seneca Falls First Woman's Rights Convention of 1848: The Sacred Rites of the Nation (1998). — Explores parallels between the Seneca Fails First Woman’s Rights Convention in the USA and the Bad...
  93. Shirin Ebadi: A collection of newspaper articles (2003). — Articles about the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize who has championed the rights of the Baha'i ...
  94. Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi and Social Justice (2007). — The term "social justice” has been used by many engaged groups as a rhetorical tool to obtain more...
  95. Bahá'í International Community. Situation of the Bahá'ís in Egypt (2007). — Oral Statement of the Baha’i International Community to the Human Rights Council (6th Session of t...
  96. Universal House of Justice. Social Action, Public Discourse, and Non-involvement in Political Affairs (2017). — Alternative courses of action to civil disobedience, circumscribed roles for protest, and the freed...
  97. Suheil Badi Bushrui. Spiritual Foundation of Human Rights, The: A Bahá'í Perspective (1997).
  98. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock. Striving for Human Rights in an Age of Religious Extremism (2016). — Baha'i perspectives on global human rights law, community duties, religion as a pillar of justice, a...
  99. Universal House of Justice and Bahá'í International Community. Television Address of Iranian President Khatami (1998). — Questions and answers about a historically unique television interview of Iranian President Khatami,...
  100. Geoffrey Cameron. Threatening Agenda, A: Iran's Shameful Denial of Education to its Bahá'í Community (2008). — Iranian government hardliners promote a coordinated and threatening agenda aimed at suffocating the ...
  101. Universal House of Justice. To the Believers in the Cradle of the Faith (2009). — Regarding the family and its role in the advancement of civilization.
  102. Mahmud Jamal. Top Court Appointee a Model of Diversity (2021). — Brief bio of Mahmud Jamal, the judge "poised to be the first person of colour on the Supreme Court o...
  103. Christopher Buck. Trial of The Yaran ("Friends in Iran"): Six Essays (2009). — Six essays by Buck from a legal perspective about the extended imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders ...
  104. Juan Cole. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Bahá'í Scriptures, The (1999). — The conception of human rights arose as part of the project of modernity, and has been problematic f...
  105. Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the Persecution of the Bahá'ís in Iran, The (2001). — Are the Human Rights of the Universal Declaration universal: a comparison of Western and Islamic not...
  106. Universal House of Justice. Views on Homosexuality (2013). — On the need to overcome material nature including homosexuality; Baha’is not to judge or impose va...
  107. Universal House of Justice. Violence Against Women and Children (1993). — Baha’i principles on violence, sexual abuse, family dynamics, gender equality, consultation, child...
  108. David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003). — A lengthy overview of the Qur'an and its themes for a Baha'i audience; holy war and fighting; reason...

2.   from the Chronology (142 results)

  1. 1848-07-19 — The Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, NY. The principle org...
  2. 1889-09-08 — Haji Muhammad Riday-i-Isfahani was martyred in `Ishqabad. He had been on of the most prominent Baha'...
  3. 1901-00-00 — William Hoar, one of the first Baha'is in America, was asked by `Abdu'l-Baha to meet with the Persia...
  4. 1906-12-30 — The Constitution of Iran was re-established. The Baha'is were not included among the recognized reli...
  5. 1926-00-04 — For most of the year severe restrictions were placed on the Baha'is of Maraghih in Ádharbayjan, the...
  6. 1926-07-12 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada made representations ...
  7. 1928-12-13 — The case arising out of the newspaper persecution of the Baha'is of Turkey was brought before a crim...
  8. 1930-00-00 — In Iran " [i]n the early years of the 1930s Baha'i women joined the movement of discarding the veil ...
  9. 1944-08-08 — Three Baha'is were murdered in Shahrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Baha'i agitation. Many Baha...
  10. 1948-08-18 — The Baha'i International Community took part in its first United Nations conference, on human rights...
  11. 1955-08-00 — Appeals were made by National Spiritual Assemblies around the world through the Baha'i International...
  12. 1959-04-10 — Representatives of the Baha'i International Community presented to the President of the Human Rights...
  13. 1961-01-17 — Following the arrest of Baha'is in Turkey in March 1959 and the subsequent court case, the Turkish c...
  14. 1961-07-15 — The Turkish court declared the Baha'i Faith to be a 'Tarighat', a sect forbidden by the law of the l...
  15. 1962-08-22 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to make representations to t...
  16. 1962-09-23 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to obtain an interview with ...
  17. 1962-10-31 — The 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco were arraigned before the Regional Court of Nador. [BW13:289; M...
  18. 1962-12-10 — The trial of the 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco on charges of sedition opened. [BW13:289; BW14:97]...
  19. 1962-12-14 — The Regional Court of Nador gave its verdict in the case of the 14 Baha'is imprisoned in Morocco on ...
  20. 1962-12-17 — The Custodians asked the Baha'i International Community to issue press releases deploring Morocco's ...
  21. 1962-12-21 — Telegrams were sent by the Baha'i International Community to Secretary-General U Thant and 35 United...
  22. 1962-12-23 — The Custodians asked national spiritual assemblies to cable Secretary General of the United Nations ...
  23. 1962-12-27 — The Custodians asked national and local spiritual assemblies to write to the Moroccan ambassador in ...
  24. 1963-01-01 — The Custodians ask all national and local spiritual assemblies to cable the King of Morocco appealin...
  25. 1963-01-31 — Roger Baldwin, Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man, appeared before the UN su...
  26. 1963-04-02 — King Hassan II of Morocco made a public statement promising that if the Supreme Court upheld the dec...
  27. 1963-04-04 — The Custodians issued a statement of information to the national spiritual assemblies of the United ...
  28. 1963-11-23 — At the request of the Universal House of Justice, Baha'is around the world prayed at the Feast of Qa...
  29. 1963-12-13 — The Baha'i prisoners in Morocco were released on order of the Supreme Court. [BW14:98; MoC19] For...
  30. 1968-00-00 — Twenty years prior, on December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed...
  31. 1968-10-10 — The widowed mother of seven children was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Morocco for refusi...
  32. 1968-10-24 — The Moroccan Baha'i sentenced to three years' imprisonment in January 1968 appelled and his sentence...
  33. 1968-11-07 — Sixteen Persian Baha'is in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; ...
  34. 1975-00-00 — The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt decided that the 1960 decree of President Nasser banning a...
  35. 1975-06-24 — Iran became one of the first countries in the world to ratify the International Covenant on Civil an...
  36. 1978-00-00 — Ten Baha'is were killed in Iran, seven by mobs. [BW18:291] For the response of Baha'i institution...
  37. 1979-00-00 — After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the persecution of Baha'is significantly intensified due ...
  38. 1979-12-03 — The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from which all civil rights stem and which did not...
  39. 1980-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Twenty-four Baha'...
  40. 1980-09-00 — The European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United Nations ...
  41. 1981-00-05 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Forty-six Baha'is...
  42. 1982-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Thirty-two Baha'i...
  43. 1982-05-25 — The Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Foreign Affairs Committee of...
  44. 1983-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92; BW19:177-226] Twe...
  45. 1984-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177-226] Thirty Baha'...
  46. 1985-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177-226] Seven Baha'i...
  47. 1985-07-01 — Three Baha'i youths in Mentawai were imprisoned for having married according to Baha'i law. [BW19:42...
  48. 1985-12-13 — For the first time, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the human rights sit...
  49. 1986-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177-226] One Baha'i, ...
  50. 1987-00-01 — Faced with unrelenting religious persecution involving a wide range of human rights violations, the ...
  51. 1988-12-08 — The plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution concerning hu...
  52. 1988-12-29 — The Universal House of Justice issued a letter to the Baha'is in the United States published as <...
  53. 1989-02-09 — The publication of the statement by the Baha'i International Community, <a href="https://www.bic....
  54. 1989-02-15 — The publication of the statement by the Baha'i International Community, <a href="https://www.bic....
  55. 1989-03-09 — The Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution expressing grave concern at human rights violati...
  56. 1991-02-25 — In Iran, a secret government memorandum (known as the Golpaygani Memorandum) was drawn up by Iran's ...
  57. 1993-01-00 — Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the United Nations' special representative in charge of monitoring the human ...
  58. 1993-02-22 — At the 49th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations in Geneva released a re...
  59. 1993-06-10 — The Baha'i International Community and Baha'is from 11 countries participated in the United Nations ...
  60. 1997-00-01 — The Tahirih Justice Center was founded to address the acute need for legal services of immigrant and...
  61. 1998-09-29 — Starting this date until October 2nd, in Iran, the government raided some 500 private homes and the ...
  62. 1999-04-19 — The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced Sina Hakiman (10 yrs), Farzad Khajeh Sharifabad...
  63. 1999-05-05 — Firuz Kazemzadeh, Secretary for External Affairs for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is ...
  64. 2000-02-17 — Iran's Supreme Court rejected death sentences imposed upon Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, Hadayet Kashefi-Ma...
  65. 2000-05-22 — The United Nations Millennium Forum was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York. It attracte...
  66. 2000-09-06 — The General Assembly Millennium Summit was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and w...
  67. 2000-10-31 — The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1325 on <a href="https://docume...
  68. 2003-12-16 — Shirin Ebadi, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first Muslim woman to win the coveted distincti...
  69. 2004-00-01 — The 2004 Circular 49/2004 issued by the Ministry of the Interior specifically instructed officials t...
  70. 2004-12-20 — United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "serious concern" over the human righ...
  71. 2005-09-15 — The 2005 World Summit was a follow-up summit meeting to the United Nations' 2000 Millennium Summit, ...
  72. 2005-10-29 — Letter from the Iranian military headquarters to various Revolutionary Guard and police forces and s...
  73. 2005-12-15 — The death of Mr. Dhabihu'llah Mahrami, 59, who had been held in a government prison in Yazd under ha...
  74. 2006-00-00 — For more than two decades young Baha'is had been barred from entering university through an applicat...
  75. 2006-04-04 — In late 2004 or early 2005 the government of Egypt introduced a computerized identity card system th...
  76. 2006-05-15 — In Egypt the government appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court and th...
  77. 2006-09-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court again postponed its hearing on the government appeal of a ...
  78. 2006-11-20 — In Egypt lawyers representing a Baha'i couple seeking to have their religious affiliation properly i...
  79. 2006-12-00 — The publication of A Faith Denied: The Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran by the Iran Human Rights D...
  80. 2006-12-16 — Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled against the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on...
  81. 2006-12-21 — A message was sent from the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of Egypt regarding the recent ...
  82. 2007-04-09 — In a memorandum from the office of Intelligence and National Security to the commanders of police fo...
  83. 2007-11-12 — Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights released a report that stated tha...
  84. 2007-12-20 — The two Egyptian Human Rights cases, the first by the father of twin children who was seeking to obt...
  85. 2008-01-29 — In Egypt a victory for religious freedom, a lower administrative court ruled in favour of two lawsui...
  86. 2008-05-14 — Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri issued a fatwa stating that, since (Baha'is) were the ...
  87. 2008-05-15 — The arrest of the Baha'i leadership took place in the context of a severely and rapidly escalating s...
  88. 2008-06-00 — In a show of solidarity for the imprisoned Yaran, an open letter was sent from a number of members o...
  89. 2008-11-00 — Ameed Saadat sat Iran's 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to stu...
  90. 2009-02-03 — The publication of "We are Ashamed," an open letter from a group of academics, writers, artists, jou...
  91. 2009-03-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court removed any grounds for preventing Baha'is from receiving ...
  92. 2009-04-17 — With respect to the Supreme Administrative Court decision of 16 March 2009, the decree, dated 19 Mar...
  93. 2009-05-11 — After a year in jail without formal charges the Baha'i leaders faced an additional accusation, 'the ...
  94. 2009-08-08 — Two young Egyptian Baha'is, Imad and Nancy Rauf Hindi, received the new identity cards. They had bee...
  95. 2009-08-17 — The trial of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned in Iran was further postponed until 18 October. [&...
  96. 2009-10-18 — Attorneys and families of the seven arrived at court in Tehran for the trial to be told that it woul...
  97. 2010-01-12 — The trial of Iran's seven Baha'i leaders, Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid...
  98. 2010-02-07 — Seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders appeared in court for a second session of their trial. The sessio...
  99. 2010-04-12 — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha'i leaders arrived at the court for their third appearance and the
  100. 2010-05-10 — New information was obtained regarding the conditions in which the seven Baha'i prisoners were being...
  101. 2010-06-12 — The seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned for more than two years in Iran made their fourth court appearan...
  102. 2010-07-24 — The imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders in Iran was extended for a further two months after the law...
  103. 2010-08-08 — The sentence of 20 years in prison was announced for members of the "Yaran-i-Iran" or "Friends of Ir...
  104. 2010-12-07 — In an open letter to Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, the Head of the Judiciary, the Baha'i Intern...
  105. 2011-09-24 — The arrest of Abdolfattah Soltani, a senior member of the legal team (4 lawyers) representing a numb...
  106. 2012-06-00 — After the January 25th revolution against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the...
  107. 2013-03-00 — The publication of the report entitled Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Bah...
  108. 2013-05-14 — The Baha'i International Community launched the Five Years Too Many campaign to protest the 20-year ...
  109. 2013-07-15 — Iranian filmmaker and blogger as well as a former Islamist hardliner who has become an outspoken cri...
  110. 2013-09-20 — Deloria Bighorn, chairperson of the National Spiritual Baha'is of Canada, presented, on behalf of th...
  111. 2013-10-28 — The release of the video Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Baha'i Community ...
  112. 2014-05-28 — In the presidential election in Egypt, former Egyptian defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was ele...
  113. 2014-11-00 — Fariba Kamalabadi, after having her fourth request to join her daughter Taraneh for her wedding deni...
  114. 2015-05-14 — A global campaign called "Seven Days in Remembrance of Seven Years in Prison for the Seven Baha'i Le...
  115. 2016-04-24 — Mr. Hamed Bin Haydara, who had been imprisoned without trial since December 2013, was again brought ...
  116. 2016-04-29 — In observance of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of seven Iranian Baha'i lead...
  117. 2016-05-12 — In commemoration of the incarceration of the Yaran in Iran in 2008 the International Baha'i Communit...
  118. 2016-05-13 — Fariba Kamalabadi, while on a five-day furlough from Evin Prison, met with former Tehran MP Faezeh H...
  119. 2016-10-26 — The report from the offices of the Baha'i International Community entitled The Baha'i Question Revis...
  120. 2016-11-24 — From her cell in Evin prison, In a open letter to her six-month old granddaughter, Bajar, Fariba Kam...
  121. 2017-04-25 — The formation of the human rights organization, "The Yemeni Initiative for Defending Baha'i Rights"....
  122. 2017-04-28 — Amnesty International sent a Joint Public Statement to the Huthi-Saleh authorities in Yemen calling ...
  123. 2017-05-12 — The Baha'i International Community launched a global campaign calling for the immediate release of t...
  124. 2017-05-15 — Hundreds of Yemenis gathered in front of the Criminal Prosecution building in the capital city of Sa...
  125. 2017-07-15 — The men who admitted to stabbing and killing Farhang Amiri, a 63-year-old father of four children, i...
  126. 2017-09-19 — Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha'is in Iran known ...
  127. 2017-09-29 — Arrests of Baha'is in Yemen drew international censure which led to a United Nations resolution, tit...
  128. 2017-10-31 — Fariba Kamalabadi, a member of the former leadership group of the Baha'is called the "Yaran", conclu...
  129. 2017-11-17 — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Iran by a vote of 83 to 30 with 68 abst...
  130. 2018-01-02 — The Specialized Criminal Court of the Houthi militia in Yemen sentenced 52 year-old detainee Hammed ...
  131. 2018-02-00 — Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an NGO working to promote the right to freedom of religion or ...
  132. 2018-02-18 — In an <a href="Https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/documents/uploaded-documents/Open_Letter_to_Mr._La...
  133. 2018-02-20 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, a former member of the Yaran, was transferred from Evin Prison to a hospita...
  134. 2018-03-16 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, at 85 the oldest member of the Yaran to be imprisoned, was released after s...
  135. 2018-03-19 — The release of Mr. Vahid Tizfahm from the Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj after having completed his 10...
  136. 2018-03-23 — Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, the Secretary-General of Yemen's Shia political party Ansar ...
  137. 2018-04-01 — The launch of a fierce campaign of hatred against members of the Baha'i Faith, as well as other agai...
  138. 2018-09-15 — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi authorities held a court hearing that targeted some 20 or 24 Baha'is, mos...
  139. 2018-09-29 — In the second court hearing presided over by judge Abdu Ismail Hassan Rajeh, three additional Baha'i...
  140. 2018-12-20 — The last imprisoned member of the former leadership body of the Baha'i community in Iran was release...
  141. 2019-01-08 — Imprisoned Baha'i Hamed bin Haydara, 55, who had been sentenced to death, appeared in court in Sana...
  142. 2020-04-28 — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan federa...

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  1. 1968-12-01 — 1968 was International Year for Human Rights, which marked the twentieth anniversary of the 1948 Uni...
  2. 2013-09-20 — Deloria Bighorn, chairperson of the National Spiritual Baha'is of Canada, presented, on behalf of
 

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