Index for Volume 7, Issue 2 July - September 1995

A Call to Reconsider the New World Order

On the 50th anniversary of the UN, the Bahá'í International community urges world leaders to hold a summit on global governance

Turning Point for All Nations

PERSPECTIVE -- The following Perpective has been adapted from "Turning Point for All Nations," a major statement of the Bahá'í International Communtiy for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations

Beiing Conference approves "An Agenda for Women's Empowerment"

BEIJING -- Acknowledging that equality between women and men is an essential prerequisite for the creation of a "peaceful, just, humane and equitable world," representatives of 189 nations at the Fourth World Conference on Women adopted a sweeping Declaration and Platform for Action aimed at launching a global campaign to bring women into full and equal participation in all spheres of public and private life worldwide.

NGO Forum overcomes crises to become a global celebration of peace.

HUAIROU, China -- As portrayed by the world's mainstream news media, the NGO Forum for Women '95 was dominated by conflicts and crises. From misunderstandings over security arrangements to rainy weather, the problems that beset the world's largest ever meeting of women made good copy for journalists accustomed to covering contention and catastrophes.

From around the world, Bahá'í women converge on Beijing

HUAIROU, China -- Born in a lush rainforest village on a remote island in Papua New Guinea, Margaret Elias is today among the most successful women in her native land.

United Nations Sub-Commission calls for the "emancipation" of Bahá'í community in Iran

GENEVA -- A panel of United Nations human rights experts, reviewing the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, has urged measures to promote the "emancipation" of oppressed Bahá'í and Christian communities there.

Integrating the Ghost with the Machine

REVIEW -- the Psychology of Spirituality by H.B. Danesh, M.D. Arthur Koestler once wrote that the great breakthroughs in science and art stem from "the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought." He defines this process as the "act of creation" and suggests that most great new theories and discoveries are born of this "bisociative pattern of creative synthesis."