The role of Australia in co-sponsoring a successful United Nations resolution condemning serious human rights abuses in Iran has earned the gratitude of the Australian Baha’i community.

Australian artist and lawyer Shadi Eshragi has felt the lash of religious persecution.

Crimson Ark, an exhibition of works by Australian-Iranian artists showing a personal response to more than three decades of persecution of Baha’is, has opened at Sydney art gallery At the Vanishing Point-Contemporary Art Inc.

The experience of the Baha’is in Iran is a stark reminder that the human right to education is out of reach for far too many people around the world, according to the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs.

An accomplished South Australian poet has paid tribute to Táhirih, a 19th century Persian poet who called for the emancipation of women decades before suffragette activism in Europe.

The greatest contribution Australia could make as a member of the UN Security Council would be to always act on the basis of the principle of the oneness of humankind, according to the Australian Baha’i Community.

On Saturday 13 October a capacity audience gave Parker and his cast a thunderous ovation at the conclusion of the premiere performance of The Servant.

Representatives of seven of the world’s major religions read from their sacred scriptures at an International Day of Peace interfaith service at the Baha’i Temple on 22 September.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told the Australian Senate that the treatment of Baha’is in Iran has been described as “among the most extreme manifestation of religious intolerance and persecution in the world”.

The Australian Baha’i Community has become a partner and supporter of Australia’s new National Anti-Racism Strategy.