4 young Baha’i ladies were in Kuching last December. Attached to a Baha’i NGO on education based in Medan, the 4 lively youth were Maya, Wahidah, Adhe,and Rintis. They also vsited Sabah. The purpose of their visit is to learn about the literacy programme run by Centre for the Advancement of Women and Family (a [...]

Baha’i women’s contingent at the Women’s Day celebration at the Padang Merdeka, Kuching on 4 Sep 2004, all dressed up in attires representing the various ethnic gropus in Sarawak

United states:- The Principal Representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the United Nations, Bani Dugal, has received a “Women Helping Women” award from Soroptimist International. The award came in weeks leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8. “Women Helping Women” is one of three awards offered under an umbrella program, “Making a Difference for Women,” established in 1986 by the Soroptimists to acknowledge those who work to improve the status of women in society. Soroptimist International is a 70-year-old volunteer service organization for women.

The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is essential to human progress and the transformation of society. Inequality retards not only the advancement of women but the progress of civilization itself. The persistent denial of equality to one-half of the world’s population is an affront to human dignity. It promotes destructive attitudes and habits in men and women that pass from the family to the work place, to political life, and, ultimately, to international relations. On no grounds, moral, biological, or traditional, can inequality be justified. The moral and psychological climate necessary to enable our nation to establish social justice and to contribute to global peace will be created only when women attain full partnership with men in all fields of endeavor.