We’re proud to present to you a new Baha’i rights illustration that aims to highlight some of the human rights abuses Baha’is are subjected to in the Middle East: arson, unjustified incarceration and limitations on freedom of speech. We’ve been hard at work on this illustration for quite some time and hope you like it!

Twitter is a great tool for raising awareness about all kinds of human rights violations. To help keep track of the cause we champion here at BahaiRights.org, we’ve created this app that tracks tweets about Baha’i human rights abuses in real time and displays them on a map or as a list. We hope that [...]

Following is a story Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty carried about The Muslim Network For Baha’i Rights: Animation In Support Of Iran’s Baha’is October 08, 2009 A new animated campaign aims to raise awareness about rights abuses against those following the Baha’i faith in Iran. The campaign, run by the Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights, [...]

A few months ago at Mideast Youth, we wrote about the Bitfilm Festival, whom we are a partner with, to give attention to some digital mash-ups that we have done in the past few years. All but one of these videos have to do with Baha’i human rights abuses in Iran and Egypt. This morning, [...]

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Dear friends, We apologize for the very few updates that we were able to generate during May and June. This is due to the fact that our sites were under serious attacks that left us unable to publish entries on our sites, and later took the entire sites down for as much as an entire [...]

Many people have been coming to us with various concerns and frequent questions. We felt the urge to address some of such concerns: What is the political “agenda” behind this campaign? This campaign is far from political. Civil rights is a societal issue and not a political one. BahaiRights.org is an independent campaign for human [...]

Regular readers of our website will note that in the past several months, our website has suffered from downtimes that would extend to hours (and sometimes even days) on end. We wish to thank all our readers for their patience, especially those of you who have written to express concern. The frequent downtimes were occassioned [...]

An article about our work for Baha’i human rights was recently featured in The Media Line: Iran might be famous for Avicenna, the Cyrus cylinder, and its leaders’ scathing remarks, but for over 6 million Baha’is across the world, it holds a special significance, as it is the birthplace of their faith. Founded a century [...]

Mideast Youth, the independent youth organization behind the Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights, is one of the 15 finalists at the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition. Your votes will determine whether or not we will be the global winner. We work hard voluntarily for Mideast Youth and its many projects, including this one. We do [...]