Bani Dugal

Bani Dugal
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Bani Dugal is a Bahá’í who served as the official representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the United Nations.

Background

Dugal completed her higher education in India receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Delhi in 1979 and from 1979 to 1980 she assisted with the Regional Preparatory Meeting for Asia and the Pacific for the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women. She then completed a Bachelor of Law at the University of Delhi School of Law in 1982 and after graduating she practiced law in India until 1988.

In 1988 Dugal moved to the United States where she began a Masters Degree in Environmental Law at Pace University in New York graduating in 1994. She was appointed by the Bahá’í International Community as an alternative representative to the United Nations in 1994 serving until 1997.

In 2001 Techeste Ahderom retired as the representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the United Nations and Dugal was appointed as the interim principal representative of the body that year, going on to be formally appointed as principal representative in 2003. In 2025 she retired from the role.

Talks

• 2011 - Rethinking Education for Girls and Women: Opening Remarks
• 2012 - Speaking on UN Panel on Religious Tolerance
• 2013 - Speaking at UN Leadership Meeting on Inequalities
• 2014 - Closing Remarks at the Third Nishan Forum on World Civilizations
• 2016 - Building Peaceful Societies Through Constructive Responses to Oppression
• 2016 - Reflections on Engagement in Discourses at the International Level
• 2017 - Economic and Social Inequality in Our World
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• 2018 - Interview at Parliament of World's Religions
• 2019 - Promoting Digital Child Dignity: From Concept to Action
• 2019 - Reflecting on the Rich History of the Bahá’í International Community
• 2020 - Interfaith Prayer with Children for Arigatou International
• 2021 - Gender Equality

References

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