Can You Solve This? | Halifax Bahai Community

“Can You Solve This?” is a campaign that aims to bring attention to human rights abuses in Iran. In particular, it focuses on the systematic denial of education which the Iranian government pursues against different groups of students. Some of the persecuted groups include Sufi Muslims, evangelical Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Sunnis, Ahmadis and others who have different religious views than those of the Iranian government.

 

The major component of this campaign is the website can-you-solve-this.org where one can view a short animated video that outlines the situation in Iran and which facilitates the visitor’s sending of emails to political representatives asking for their support. The twist on this campaign is that it uses a QR (Quick Response; see attached image)code through which people can access the website as well. These popular codes can be scanned by “smartphones” which automatically directs the user to the website. This is the first time these QR codes are being used in the context of a human rights issue.

 

At this time Germany, UK, Brazil, Slovakia, the US, Australia, and India have already launched this campaign in their respective countries. Canada launched on the 19th of October, 2011 starting at the University of Toronto campus, and we are excited to announce that Halifax will be launching its event on January 9th, 2012 at Dalhousie University!

In queue to be launched are France, Italy, Netherlands, Holland, and Greece. So far, almost 10,000 letters have been sent to various official representatives including Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This human rights initiative is a coalition between a diversity of organizations and individuals around the world.

 

 

For more information contact Emad Talisman at eblaghi@gmail.com, or visit the following links:

YouTube: youtube.com/user/CanYouSolveThis

Canadian website : can-you-solve-this.org/ca

Facebook group : facebook.com/canyousolvethis

Facebook event for Canada : on.fb.me/v1I3M1

Case study that was done by the movement: http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/latest-case-study-canyousolvethis.org-interactive-campaign-for-right-to-edu/

Article on leading online magazine for social media: http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/qr-code-iran/

 

 

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Can You Solve This? | Halifax Bahai Community

“Can You Solve This?” is a campaign that aims to bring attention to human rights abuses in Iran. In particular, it focuses on the systematic denial of education which the Iranian government pursues against different groups of students. Some of the persecuted groups include Sufi Muslims, evangelical Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Sunnis, Ahmadis and others who have different religious views than those of the Iranian government.

The major component of this campaign is the website can-you-solve-this.org where one can view a short animated video that outlines the situation in Iran and which facilitates the visitor’s sending of emails to political representatives asking for their support. The twist on this campaign is that it uses a QR (Quick Response; see attached image)code through which people can access the website as well. These popular codes can be scanned by “smartphones” which automatically directs the user to the website. This is the first time these QR codes are being used in the context of a human rights issue.

At this time Germany, UK, Brazil, Slovakia, the US, Australia, and India have already launched this campaign in their respective countries. Canada launched on the 19th of October, 2011 starting at the University of Toronto campus, and we are excited to announce that Halifax will be launching its event on January 9th, 2012 at Dalhousie University!

In queue to be launched are France, Italy, Netherlands, Holland, and Greece. So far, almost 10,000 letters have been sent to various official representatives including Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This human rights initiative is a coalition between a diversity of organizations and individuals around the world.

For more information contact Emad Talisman at eblaghi@gmail.com, or visit the following links:

YouTube: youtube.com/user/CanYouSolveThis

Canadian website : can-you-solve-this.org/ca

Facebook group : facebook.com/canyousolvethis

Facebook event for Canada : on.fb.me/v1I3M1

Case study that was done by the movement: http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/latest-case-study-canyousolvethis.org-interactive-campaign-for-right-to-edu/

Article on leading online magazine for social media: http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/qr-code-iran/

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Arrests are part of official campaign to block development of Iranian Baha’is

NEW YORK, 25 May 2011 (BWNS) – The raids carried out on some 30 homes of Baha’is, who were offering education to young community members barred by the government from university, is the latest action in Iran’s ongoing policy to keep its largest non-Muslim religious minority on the margins of society.

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Baha’is have been systematically deprived of higher education. With nowhere else to turn, the community initiated its own educational programmes.

“The Iranian authorities are clearly determined to make it impossible for the Baha’i community to educate its youth whose opportunities are blocked by the state,” said Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations.

“Denying people the right to education is a denial of their right to exist as free and productive human beings – and to make a contribution to their society,” she said.

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Academic conference explores "othering" of Iranian Baha'is

TORONTO, 4 July 2011 (BWNS) – Iranian scholars, many from globally prominent universities, gathered here for a groundbreaking academic conference on the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is.

Titled “Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran,” the conference examined how Iranian authorities have sought to exclude Baha’is from social, political, cultural, and intellectual life by portraying them as outsiders in their own land – a process known as “othering.”

The event, held from 1-3 July, was the first major academic conference at a top-ranked university to focus on the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is in any context.

“This conference is not a Baha’i studies conference,” said its main organizer Mohamad Tavakoli. “It is an effort to understand the use of repression in the history of modern Iran and how the ‘othering’ of Baha’is has become a mechanism of mass mobilization for the legitimization of the state and for the creation of political-religious ideology.”

Dr. Tavakoli – a well-known scholar on Iran and the Middle East from the University of Toronto – said the idea for the conference came from his own research into the degree to which various Iranian groups had used anti-Baha’i rhetoric and made a scapegoat of Baha’is to gain political power, both in the past and the present.

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