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Aug
16
Ebadi – Iran has no evidence against Bahá’í prisoners
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Jul
14
Cherie Blair: Iran’s Bahá’ís face “uncertain, dangerous future.”
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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 [...]
Jun
24
Queen honours Surrey Bahá’í
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Mar
13
Iran’s persecution of Bahá’ís is devastating
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Bahá’í News UK is pleased to share the following commentary article written by Dr Nazila Ghanea, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal of Religion and Human Rights. The article has been published in the Personal View pages of Telegraph.co.uk’s Comment section.
What connects an [...]
Jan
15
Concern as six Bahá’ís are arrested in Iran
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The Bahá’í community has expressed its concern after at least six Bahá’ís were arrested in Iran yesterday. One of those detained is a woman who worked at human rights organizations connected with Nobel prize winner Shirin Ebadi, pictured right.
According to the Bahá’í World News Service, the six were arrested after government security agents raided the [...]
Dec
9
Leading peers condemn violence against women
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Violence against women and girls is widely condemned, but still too widely perpetrated, according to Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, the Leader of the House of Lords.
Baroness Royall, pictured right, was speaking at a reception held on Monday 8 December at the UK National Bahá’í Centre to highlight a Baha’i International Community statement, Beyond Legal Reforms: Culture [...]
Dec
9
Bahá’ís mourn Lady Carpenter
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Lady Lilian Carpenter, the widow of the former Dean of Westminster Dr Edward Carpenter and a devoted member of the United Kingdom Bahá’í community has died at the age of 91.
Lady Carpenter met her husband, then a young curate, at the Holy Trinity church in Marylebone where she was active in its Sunday School and Youth [...]
Nov
26
Iran challenged to fulfil obligations to women, Kurds and Bahá’ís
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The rights of women and minorities in Iran must not be overlooked while the world focuses on the country’s nuclear issue, according to a report released by Britain’s leading progressive foreign affairs “think-tank”.
The new report launched at Westminster by the Foreign Policy Centre on Tuesday 25 November, to coincide with United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence [...]
Nov
24
Bahá’í wins top environmental award
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A member of the UK Bahá’í community has won a prestigious award for her work in protecting high conservation priority areas around the world.
Mrs Guilda Navidi-Walker of Stisted was honoured by the World Wide Fund for Nature for the role she has played in helping convene summits for heads of states and ministers to agree to [...]
Nov
6
British Bahá’í honoured by Mongolia
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A British Bahá’í has been awarded one of the highest honours in Mongolia.
Lois Lambert has been named a State Honoured Citizen. She is only the second non-Mongolian to have been given this award.
Mrs Lambert has been conducting moral education classes for students for the past two years at a medical college owned and administered by [...]