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Berlin | 15 Mar 2016 In a sign of the growing awareness of the role that religious groups can play in sustainable...
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UN Human Rights Council – 31st Session, March 2016 Geneva | 15 Mar 2016 Mr. President,
Mr. Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iranian High Council for Human Rights,...
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Geneva | 15 Mar 2016 Iran continues to violate a wide range of human rights, including those of its Baha’i citizens,...
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UN Human Rights Council – 31st Session, March 2016 14 Mar 2016
Mr. Shaheed,
In the last two years, more than 100 shops belonging to Baha’is were shut down by...
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Geneva | 7 Mar 2016 The justice system in Iran continues to be arbitrary and unfair, according to a group of experts...
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Perspectives
This perspective is adapted from remarks made by Saphira Rameshfar on 1 February 2016 at a... United Nations | 4 Mar 2016 Despite the hope that they represent for humanity’s future, youth are often seen as a group in...
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New York | 25 Feb 2016 For decades, the world has looked to the United Nations to help settle armed hostility. The...
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Geneva | 15 Feb 2016 The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Iran to stop identifying Baha’i children...
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Geneva | 1 Feb 2016 In an egregious miscarriage of justice, an Iranian revolutionary court in the province of Golestan...
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New York | 27 Jan 2016 Any effort to rethink and strengthen social development must include an examination of how...
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New York | 27 Jan 2016 The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has transformed the landscape in which...
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New York | 22 Jan 2016 Successfully implementing and monitoring the new global plan for sustainable development, which has...
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The following Perspective was first offered to an e-discussion organized by the United... NEW YORK | 14 Jan 2016 Intergovernmental processes are gradually acknowledging that the health of people and the health of...
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United Nations | 17 Dec 2015 Last month, Iranian authorities arrested 20 Baha’is and closed 28 of their shops. Today the UN...
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PARIS | 14 Dec 2015 The outcome of last week’s UN Conference on Climate Change, known as COP21, which resulted in an...
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[The following Perspective was adapted from a talk given by Daniel Perell to commemorate... United Nations | 10 Dec 2015 Freedom of worship, in the context of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt’s four freedoms, is a topic...
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GENEVA | 1 Dec 2015 As part of an outrageous effort to block Baha’i youth from higher education, Iranian authorities...
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A statement to the Forum on Minority Issues – 8th Session, 24-25 November 2015, Agenda Item 4... Geneva | 25 Nov 2015 About a month ago, the BBC broadcast a documentary entitled “Iranian Revolutionary Justice”. The...
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NEW YORK | 24 Nov 2015 In September, the UN adopted Agenda 2030, a bold and potentially transformative global plan for...
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PARIS | 24 Nov 2015 The success of the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change will hinge not only on...
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