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Paul Hanley’s bold and sweeping new book, Eleven, opens with a simple but extremely consequential question: Given that the world’s population is by... Read more
Human Rights
GENEVA — One month after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards resumed demolition of an historic Bahá’í cemetery in Shiraz, three high-level United Nations... Read more
Community Development
UVIRA, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Located on the northern shore of Lake Tanganyika in the war-torn province of Sud-Kivu, this small and... Read more
Post - 2015
NEW YORK — Can the world effectively move forward with a post 2015 development agenda if most countries are mired in policies of economic austerity... Read more
Human Rights
GENEVA - After several postponements last year, the trial of seven Iranian Bahá'í leaders began in January 2010 - an event that was immediately... Read more
Human Rights
A global campaign to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of seven Iranian Bahá’í leaders led to an outpouring of support and... Read more
Interfaith
At an international interfaith conference on "Faith in Human Rights," religious leaders pledge to uphold the Universal Declaration and freedom of... Read more
Youth
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia—With temperatures below freezing here for most of the year, Mongolians cherish the short summer, a season for celebrating and... Read more
Human Rights
NEW YORK - During her time in Iran's notorious Evin prison, journalist Roxana Saberi met a number of fellow women prisoners who gave her strength and... Read more

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