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Bahá’í International Community’s Brussels Office 2025 Year in Review
Brussels | 31 Dec 2025
In 2025, our work continued to focus on nurturing collective and meaningful conversations at a time...
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Bahá’í International Community representatives win 2025 IRF Peace Builders Award for championing faith freedom around the world
Prague | 12 Nov 2025
Two senior representatives of the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), Bani Dugal and Diane Ala’i...
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Qatar: 5-Year Sentence for Baha’i Dignitary on Abusive Charges

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Geneva | 15 Aug 2025
A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar to five...
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From the world stage to a show trial as Qatari government targets prominent Baha’i

Discrimination of Baha’is in Egypt and Qatar focus of new Associated Press report...

15 Jul 2025
GENEVA—15 July 2025—The Baha'i International Community (BIC) welcomes a new report by the...
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Peacebuilders—not victims: Geneva panel hears that women of faith play key role in overcoming hate speech
Geneva | 17 Jun 2025
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Geneva Centre for Human Rights...
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European Parliament urges the unconditional release of Baha’i prisoner of conscience Mahvash Sabet

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Brussels | 4 Apr 2025
The European Parliament has passed an urgency resolution on Iran, expressing its concern about the...
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26 Delegates, 17 Countries, One Shared Effort for Women’s Advancement and Peaceful Societies
New York | 21 Mar 2025
The 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) unfolded at a moment...
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Iran’s government condemned at United Nations for blatantly denying Baha’i cemetery desecrations

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Geneva | 11 Mar 2025
Iran’s government was rebuked by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or...
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UN human rights experts concertedly warn that Iranian Baha’i women face escalating and intersectional persecution

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Geneva | 20 Jan 2025
A group of 18 United Nations human rights experts issued a press release on 23 December 2024...
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Baha’i International Community’s Brussels Office 2024 Year in Review
Brussels | 30 Dec 2024
In 2024, our work focused on understanding how individuals and communities across the world can...
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Mahvash Sabet is recovering from heart surgery: Iran’s government must let her do so in peace by never returning her to prison

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Geneva | 23 Dec 2024
Mahvash Sabet, a 71-year-old Iranian Baha’i prisoner of conscience jailed by the Islamic Republic...
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Rising support at UN General Assembly resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations and persecution of Baha’is
New York | 17 Dec 2024
The United Nations General Assembly has rebuked the Islamic Republic of Iran for its human rights...
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European Parliament joins global chorus condemning Iran’s government for persecution of Baha’is and the abuse of women and other minorities
Brussels | 29 Nov 2024
An “urgency resolution” by the European Parliament “strongly condemned” the Iranian government’s “...
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BIC and Office of Public Affairs of the Baha'is of Yemen co-host an event on 'Reimagining Education for Inclusivity and Innovation in Yemen.'
Geneva | 29 Nov 2024
The Baha’i International Community (BIC) and the Office of Public Affairs of the Baha'is of Yemen...
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United Nations resolution rebukes Iran’s government for systemic and escalating persecution of Baha’is and all Iranians—and calls for urgent change

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New York | 20 Nov 2024
A new United Nations (UN) resolution by the General Assembly’s Third Committee condemning the...
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United Nations members and experts condemn persecution of Baha’is—in Iran and Yemen—at UN General Assembly
New York | 7 Nov 2024
In recent days the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s Third Committee heard several strong...
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Promoting an inclusive society for a peaceful Yemen: A panel discussion hosted by BIC’s United Nations office in Geneva
Geneva | 27 Sep 2024
On the sidelines of the ongoing 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Bahá’í...
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Four Yemeni Baha’is freed by Houthis as Baha’i International Community calls for release of all innocent detainees

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Geneva | 20 Aug 2024
The last four jailed Yemeni Baha’is were released recently in a development that concludes a...
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BIC Explores the Role of Justice, Inclusivity at UN High-Level Political Forum
New York | 19 Jul 2024
This year’s High-Level Political Forum on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals focused...
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"Fostering Unity: the Role of Youth in Yemen’s Social Fabric" a third roundtable on Social Cohesion in Yemen hosted by BIC Brussels and Yemeni Bahá'ís
Brussels | 16 Jul 2024
“In Yemen, more than 50 percent of the population are youth,” said Yazan Al-Eryani, Deputy Head of...

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