Index for the January-March issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 15, Issue 4)
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In Chad, a project to promote sustainable fishing yields extra dividends

APRODEPIT, a Bahá'í-inspired non-governmental organization, stresses participation and consultation in an effort to promote conservation and community development along the Chari River.

In the advancement of women, men are increasingly seen as important partners

At this year's session of the Commission on the Status of Women, more men than ever stepped forward in a spirit of partnership to advocate for the rights of women. In so doing, they helped promote a new model of masculinity.

Perspective: The Individual and Social Action

A growing number of people all over the world, believing that powerful global forces have ignored the well-being of average citizens in favor of the interests of big businesses, transnational corporations, governmental elites, war machines, ecological destruction, and other evils, are taking to the streets to protest.

Role of religion in conflict-torn areas explored at NGO experts meeting

The positive role of faith and religion in healing conflict-torn populations emerged as an important theme here at a recent experts meeting held by non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Bahá'í holy site destroyed in Iran

Government authorities in Iran have destroyed yet another Bahá'í holy site, the Bahá'í International Community learned in April. The gravesite of Quddús, a prominent figure in early Bahá'í history, has been razed to the ground, despite protests from Bahá'ís at the local, national, and international levels.

Latest volume discusses religious tolerance, new approaches to HIV/AIDS

The need for religious tolerance, the role of the individual in building society, and HIV/AIDS are among the topics addressed in the newly released volume of The Bahá'í World.

Social harmony display at European Parliament

An exhibition on social harmony produced by the Bahá'í International Community graced the first floor gallery of the Winston Churchill Building at the European Parliament 10-12 February 2004.

Review: Nationalism as a figment of our imagination

Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands
By Charles V. Carnegie
Rutgers University Press
New Brunswick , NJ , and London

In the opening chapter of his new book, Charles V. Carnegie describes in vivid detail a morning swim on a beach in his native Jamaica — the warm water, the cloudless sky, and string of bright buoys. But what made the morning so memorable was not the delightful exercise; it was the disturbing comments he overheard from beach attendants after the swim.