Geneva – UN: here I come

Getting ready to travel to Geneva to attend the Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) for Europe and North America as preparation for next year’s Commission on Sustainable Development session. Am expecting 3 long, long days (UN is good at those), but hope to get back into the habit of daily blogging, as I did in May, [...]

Faith & Environment seminar hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Last Thursday (29 October 2009) I was at:
Lambeth Palace (the London residency of the Archbishop of Canterbury) to represent the UK Baha’i community at a seminar on Faith & the Environment.
This seminar, hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, was attended by 24 representatives of UK faith communities, 4 from CofE Diocesans, [...]

Ethical dimensions of climate change /de ethische kant van klimaatsverandering

Blog Action Day 2009 on Climate Change was yesterday. So, yes, I know I’m late.
I’m just going to share a few thoughts from the Baha’i International Community (BIC) and the International Environment Forum (IEF) on the ethical dimensions of climate change.
In May I attended a workshop organised by the BIC and we were asked to [...]

Ethical dimensions of climate change /de ethische kant van klimaatsverandering

The Baha’i International Community launched its appeal to the world leaders on the moral and ethical implications of climate change. This appeal is supported by 23 other organizations and its launch date coincided with a High Level meeting at the UN in New York.
This is the text of the appeal:
We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations in [...]

Update

An update of my activities seems long overdue. So, what’s kept me busy the last few weeks? First of all a very successful (1st ever in England) residential cluster school near Durham over the August Bank holiday weekend. I still need to pull together a final report, but that’ll happen soon.
Last week, with a UN [...]

CEDAW – rights of women / vrouwenrechten

CEDAW. Any idea what it stands for? No…..? Shame on you! Honestly. It is the most important (besides the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of course) Treaty on Human Rights for Women.
CEDAW is the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and it outlines standards for ratifying countries to [...]

UN – more visists to come /VN – nog meer bezoek

Excited & anxious, wondering what I’ve got myself into. Why? Because the Baha’i International Community has been appointed as one of the 3 organising parties (OPs) of the Women Major Group for the current 2-year cycle of the Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD 18 & 19). And I’ll be doing a lot of the coordination [...]

Wish I was in DC next week…

because the International Environment Forum is integrating its annual event into the annual conference of the Association for Bahá’í Studies – North America, and is co-organizing several plenary and breakout sessions. The International Environment Forum is a Bahá’í-inspired professional Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) whose members from the Bahá’í Faith and the wider community promote the application [...]

Junior Youth Animator Resource Website

Animator Ideas is a resource website for animators of Bahá’í junior youth groups.  It covers suggestions on how to get your Junior Youth group up and running as quickly as possible, lots of ideas on extra activities while using the Junior Youth books, working with parents, ideas to promote discipline, and much more!
“Among the young ones in the [...]

11 July = Baha’i Rights Day/ 11 juli = Baha’i Rechtendag

O SON OF MAN!
For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
The above Arabic Hidden Word illustrates what is needed. Today is Baha’i Rights Day. A day in which we focus our attention, ever so briefly, on the denial of basic human rights to [...]