Children and Youth

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• News Stories about Youth

  News stories from the Bahá'í World News Service about youth. More >

• News Stories about Children

  News Stories from the Bahá'í World News Service related to children. More >

• The Girl Child

  In the view of the Bahá'í International Community, the advancement of civilization now requires the full participation of everyone, including women. For this to happen, girl children as well as boy children must be valued by their families and by society. More >

• Role of Youth in Human Rights

  The Bahá'í International Community is pleased to have the opportunity to speak under agenda item 15 on the role of youth in the promotion and protection of human rights. We feel that the beginning of International Youth Year offers an auspicious occasion to consider further how the rights of youth can be better safeguarded and how youth themselves may contribute to the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms. More >

• Bahá'í Youth Workshops Promote Tolerance

  After touring through 19 countries in 12 months, members of the Diversity Dance Workshop were used to surprises, from finding a planned border crossing through Croatia impossible because of a war to a quirky new minibus that had an unusual series of three flat tires. More >

• Bahá'í Youth: “A New Kind of People”

  The crises affecting all of society always have a particularly devastating impact on its youngest members, who are still in the process of forming the attitudes that will guide their lives. At this turning point in history, when the forces of disintegration are accelerating and the forces of integration still too little understood, many youth feel caught in a maelstrom, unsure of how and why they should respond with hope when their experiences are so fraught with pain ... More >