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The two women who won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work for peace in Northern Ireland have joined an international call for the release of seven Bahá’í leaders currently being detained in Iran. 
Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams – along with four other women Nobel Peace Prize laureates – have issued a statement registering their [...]

Three new videos about the Bahá’í Faith in the Persian language have been launched online.
The three short films are the first in a planned series aimed at introducing basic Bahá’í teachings to a Farsi-speaking audience.  
The three titles are: (click on the titles to watch the videos on YouTube)
We are Bahá’ís- Followers of Iran’s largest religious [...]

The celebrated native American performer Kevin Locke has arrived in the United Kingdom for his first ever appearance at the world-famous Glastonbury Festival, as well as exciting programmes in London. 
Mr Locke, a Bahá’í, is known throughout the world as a visionary Hoop Dancer, the preeminent player of the indigenous Northern Plains flute, a traditional storyteller, cultural [...]

24 June 2008 – The UK government said today it will continue making representations to Iran to express concern over the country’s treatment of its 300,000 strong Bahá’í community.
Responding to a question in the House of Commons about the situation of the Bahá’ís in Iran from Mr Tom Brake, the Liberal Democrat MP [...]

The Bahá’í World News Service has launched a new online bulletin, Iran Update.
This regularly updated report provides the latest, verified news of the situation of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
It can be accessed here.
Technorati Tags: Iran, human rights, Bahai, Baha’i

Seven prominent Bahá’ís imprisoned in Iran have each been allowed a brief phone call to their families, the UK Bahá’í community has learned.
The calls were the first contact with the jailed Bahá’ís since six of them were arrested on 14 May in pre-dawn raids at their homes in Tehran. The seventh was arrested in March in the [...]

Few incidents in Iran of recent decades have been more shocking than the group execution of ten Bahá’í women in Shiraz on 18 June 1983. Their crime? Teaching children following the government’s ban on Bahá’í pupils from attending schools.
Among the hanged was 25-year old Shirin Dalvand, pictured right.
“Shirin had moved with our whole family to [...]

A Bahá’í from Northern Ireland who has devoted the last two decades to the empowerment of women in central India – and pioneering the use of solar-powered technology in their communities – has been awarded an OBE in Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
James “Jimmy” McGilligan, pictured right, received his award “for services to [...]

One of the United Kingdom’s oldest student newspapers has published a call to Iran to allow Bahá’ís there access to higher education.
Under the title, “A threatening agenda”, the independent Cherwell newspaper, first published in 1920, has printed a comment article by Geoff Cameron, detailing the background to Iran’s current clampdown on Bahá’ís.
“Over the past year, [...]

In response to recent developments in Iran, including the arrest of the entire Bahá’í leadership, the international governing council of the worldwide Baha’i community – the Universal House of Justice – has addressed an encouraging letter to the Bahá’ís there. “Despite the current crisis, pay no heed to oppression and cruelty and, inspired by the [...]