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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