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Advancement of Women
Baha'is view equality between the sexes and the full participation of women in every field of human endeavor as essential prerequisites to peace and human progress.
Race Unity
Baha'is view racism as America's most vital and challenging issue. Baha'u'llah, the prophet-founder of the Baha'i Faith, taught that the world's peace, prosperity and well being ultimately depend on the recognition of the oneness of humanity.
Social and Economic Development
Efforts to promote social and economic development play an important role at the local and national levels of the Baha'i community. Most of these take the form of small-scale educational, health, economic and environmental projects.
Environmental Issues
The Baha'is of the United States have worked with other organizations to advance sustainable development since 1990, when preparations began for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
U.N. Decade for Education on Sustainable Development
Interfaith Relations
Baha’is believe that religion has a crucial role to play in building a peaceful world and resolving conflict. Since the mid-1800s, Baha'is have been active in promoting interfaith dialogue and understanding.
Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran
Some 300,000 Baha’is live throughout Iran, making the Baha’i Faith the country’s largest minority religion. The persecution of Baha'is in Iran has been taking place since the religion began there in the mid-nineteenth century.
Support Baha'i Students in Iran
Baha'is in Egypt
Deprived of all rights as an organized religious community since 1960, Egyptian Baha’is are facing an immediate crisis over government efforts to deny them all-important identification cards.
Baha'is at the United Nations
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, the national governing body of the U.S. Baha’i community, has been represented at the United Nations since 1947. The U.S. National Spiritual Assembly is a member of the Baha’i International Community, a network of 182 Baha’i national affiliates that acts on behalf of five million Baha’is worldwide.
The Baha’i teachings affirm that there is only one human family and that all people share the same universal human rights.
The Baha’i commitment to human rights is based on the recognition of the fundamental dignity of the human being as a creation of God.
International Criminal Court
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, the religious community’s national governing body, is a founding member of the Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court (WICC) and the American Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC).
Social Action
