BRATISLAVA, Slovakia —Treatment of the Baha’is in Iran has “escalated to an institutionalised and blatant policy of persecution,” according to a proclamation issued by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Slovakian parliament. The proclamation describes the…
[BWNS, 19 Jan. 2012] GENEVA — Eighteen years ago, Baha’is in the Iranian city of Sanandaj were allocated a one-hectare parcel of barren land at the side of a road for use as a cemetery. This…
[BWNS, 13 Jan. 2012] LONDON — Members of Parliament here have sharply criticized Iran for its human rights violations, focusing especially on the “steep rise” in the persecution of religious minorities. In a debate held at…
[CNN By Roxana Saberi, Special to CNN] Editor’s note: Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, is the author of “Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran.” (CNN) — In March 2009, when I was detained…
[BWNS, 10 Jan. 2012] SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, a noted legal scholar who uncovered significant evidence of human rights violations in Iran in the late 1980s and early 1990s, passed away here last…
[The Times Higher Education, 22 December 2011, By Matthew Reisz] Baha’is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their institute. Matthew Reisz reports Once, during Ramadan in the mid-1990s, Erfan Sabeti was on…
EDUCATION UNDER FIRE’S INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL SUNDAY, JANUARY 15TH 5:00 – 6:00 EASTERN ************** Join KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Gissou Nia, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center’s Executive Director, who will be addressing us…
By Allan Rock, Lloyd Axworthy [huffingtonpost.ca, 5-Jan-2012] With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels…
EDUCATION UNDER FIRE’S EXPLOSIVE, INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE WEEKLY CONFERENCE CALL SUNDAY, JANUARY 8TH 5:00 – 6:00 EASTERN ************** Join keynote speaker, Bani Dugal, Education Under Fire documentary interviewee and Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community to…
