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The emancipation of women,
the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is one of the most important,
though less acknowledged prerequisites of peace. The denial of such equality
perpetrates an injustice against one half of the world’s population
and promotes in men harmful attitudes and habits that are carried from the
family to the workplace, to political life, and ultimately to international
relations. There are no grounds, moral, practical, or biological, upon which
such denial can be justified. Only as women are welcomed into full partnership
in all fields of human endeavour will the moral and psychological climate
be created in which international peace can emerge.
(Letters
of The Universal House of Justice, 1985 Oct, The
Promise of World Peace, p. 3)
The Shrine of the Báb, Bahá'í World Centre, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. 
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Participants improved their skills in workshops on media and video, the use of the arts and of music, and community development.
During a presentation about the growth of the Faith in Tonga from just a few souls in the 1950s to 29 Local Spiritual Assemblies today, participants heard about visits from such prominent Bahá'ís as Hands of the Cause Collis Featherstone, Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, Rahmatu'llah Muhajir, Enoch Olinga, Ruhiyyih Rabbani, and John Robarts, and a member of the Universal House of Justice, Hugh Chance. Some 45 Bahá'ís from other countries have lived in Tonga for various periods of time to assist in the development of the Bahá'í community.
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