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The Baha’i International Community has become a partner in a UN sponsored programme to address climate change and environmental stability. According to the Baha’i World News Service, the programme, which is co-sponsored by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), seeks to promote lifestyle changes that will help [...]

The United States House of Representatives voted yesterday, 22 October, to condemn the Iranian government’s persecution of the Baha’i minority and its continued violation of its international human rights obligations. According to this story on the US Baha’i community’s website, this is the eleventh congressional resolution since 1982 about the persecution of the Baha’is in [...]

Although the trial of seven Baha’i leaders imprisoned in Iran for more than 17 months was scheduled for Sunday 18 October, when attorneys and families arrived at the court offices in Tehran they were told it would not take place. No new trial date was given. “The time has come for these seven innocent people [...]

GENEVA — The trial of seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders in Iran is scheduled for Sunday. However, defense lawyers have not received the standard advance notification required under Iranian law. “It is unclear whether the trial will take place on Sunday, or whether it will be postponed again,” said Diane Ala’i, the Baha’i International Community representative [...]