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Baha’i delegates Arthur L Dahl and Tahirih Naylor in conversation in Windsor Castle with HRH Prince Philip, ARC Secretary-General Martin Palmer, and UN Secretary-General HE Ban Ki-moon Is this, as has been suggested, “the biggest civil society movement on climate change in history”? Representatives of the Bahá’í International Community joined some 200 delegates from nine [...]

Cherie Blair QC – one of the United Kingdom’s leading human rights lawyers and wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – is calling for Iran to ensure that seven leaders of the Bahá’í faith – held in prison for more than a year without charge or access to their legal counsel – be given [...]

An internationally recognised infertility consultant from the Midlands – who provides services in gynaecology, assisted conception and early pregnancy care - has been honoured for his work. Masoud Afnan, 51, a member of the Birmingham Bahá’í community – was presented with a prestigious Lloyds TSB Jewel Award at a ceremony in the city on Saturday 11 July. [...]

The continuing persecution of Bahá’ís and other minorities in Iran has been highlighted in Amnesty International’s State of the World’s Human Rights 2009 report. The report, launched in London by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan, reviews human rights abuses and developments throughout the world. “In Iran, the authorities continued to harass and persecute Bahá’ís and [...]

The first anniversary of the arrest of six prominent Bahá’ís in Iran has sparked calls for their release from leading human rights organisations around the world. “These Bahá’í leaders have been languishing in prison for a year now, with no access to their lawyers and no glimmer of a trial date,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director [...]

The 15th edition of the UK Baha’i Review has been published. This attractive, full-colour, 32-page magazine, launched in 2001, showcases the activities and thinking of the Bahá’í community of the United Kingdom in the past twelve months. Special features in the latest edition includes news of the UNESCO recognition of Baha’i holy places in Israel [...]

The national governing council of the UK Bahá’í community has joined with the country’s religious leaders in urging the G20 leaders not to forget their commitments to the world’s poorest people in the current economic crisis. In a letter issued in advance of the G20 meeting in London, political leaders are called upon to consider [...]

London has hosted the United Kingdom’s largest Bahá’í gathering in 45 years with a northern European regional conference that brought together 3,200 people from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Greenland. A World Congress held in the Royal Albert Hall in 1963 was the only bigger Bahá’í gathering in the city [...]

Global warming and its impact on the world’s peoples should be addressed in the context of the ethical and moral issues that surround it.   In its contributions to the UN Climate Change conference in Poznan, Poland, this week, the Bahá’ís have released a working paper, ‘Redefining the Challenge of Climate Change‘. “The search for [...]