Index for the October-December
2001 issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 13, Issue 3)
(Click here for a PDF file of the printed
issue)
Values and education are seen as key to action on sustainable development
Looking ahead to the upcoming World Summit for Sustainable Development, the International Environment Forum sees "soft" topics of "knowledge, values and education" as the means to create the commitment necessary to implement the sustainable development agenda.In India, the world's largest school succeeds by focusing on globalism and morality
LUCKNOW, India - Fresh out of college and newly married, Jagdish Gandhi knew some 42 years ago that his main goal in life was to serve humanity. And he felt educating children would be a good way to do that. The City Montessori School that he founded is now the largest private school in the world.Focusing on service, one man builds a financial empire on spiritual principle
-- LINZ, Austria - He wasn't penniless, but neither was Faramarz Ettehadieh wealthy by any stretch of the imagination when he founded Imperial Finance Group in the early 1970s - a company that grew during the 1980s and 1990s into a multifaceted enterprise that has managed more than US$1.1 billion in investments over the last 30 years.Two Wings Network: a development effort that combines financial acumen with service to humanity
LINZ, Austria - Among the endeavors that financier Faramarz Ettehadieh is perhaps most proud of is the Two Wings Network, a non-governmental organization aimed at supporting development projects that focus on the education and empowerment of women in the Global South.ADCAM receives major grant to expand vocational training in the Amazon
MANAUS, Brazil - As part of a government program to reduce unemployment, a Bahá'í-inspired development organization in the Amazon basin has received a major grant from the Brazilian Ministry of Education to expand its vocational education program here, with the goal of offering courses to more than 4,000 students per year by 2006.UN again expresses concern over continuing discrimination against Iran's Bahá'ís
UNITED NATIONS - For the 16th time in 17 years, the United Nations General Assembly has expressed "concern" over human rights violations in Iran, specifically noting the "still-existing discrimination" against the Bahá'í community of Iran.Gianni Ballerio, longtime Bahá'í International Community representative to the United Nations, passes away
GENEVA, Switzerland - Giovanni (Gianni) Ballerio, 58, who represented the Bahá'í International Community at the United Nations here and in New York since 1981, lost his battle with cancer on 13 December 2001.Perspective: Belief and Tolerance: Lights Amidst the Darkness
The human spirit must be free to know. Apprehending who we are, for what purpose we exist, and how we should live our lives, is a basic impulse of human consciousness. This quest for self-understanding and meaning is the essence of life itself. The innate and fundamental aspiration to investigate reality is thus a right and an obligation of every human being.Review: Reinterpreting religion without reference to gender
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Woman's Place: Religious Women as Public Actors,
edited by Azza Karam