Bahá'í Focus on Human Rights

This challenging new book presents an important fresh perspective on the vital issue of human rights. The Baha'i Faith, the newest of the world religions with millions of adherents around the globe, emphasizes the need for an organic change in the structure of present day society. Its message applies not only the individual but concerns itself with the nature of those essential relationships that must bind all the states and nations as members of one family. The Faith's central principle of the Oneness of Mankind demands a new dimension of social responsibility without which, it claims, 'human rights' can never be established or protected. Its assertion that human rights are God-given and not the prerogative of governments and rulers is a bold challenge to much contemporary thinking on this issue. Well researched, amply documented and containing many references to the Baha'i Writings, the world embracing vision of this book, which sees the unification of mankind as not only possible but indeed logical and inevitable is both insuring and thought-provoking..