Sikhs Lobby MEPs Against Turban Ban After Refusing to Remove Kirpan to Enter EU Parliament Sikh Kirpan-Wearers Not Allowed to Enter European Parliament on Sikh Lobby Day Brussels , Belgium – Sikhs remained in high spirits as they continued to lobby their Members of…
New York, USA – The UNITED SIKHS emergency response team will arrive in Indonesia tomorrow to provide relief material to survivors of the earthquake which struck the island of Java, Indonesia killing over 4500 people and leaving thousands more injured and…
Azad Kashmir, Pakistan – UNITED SIKHS has collaborated with an Austrian relief agency, the Seventh Day Adventists and Guru Nanak Relief Camp to provide shelter homes, household kits and duvets to assist the Asian quake survivors rebuild their lives. Harsharen Kaur,…
Azad Kashmir, Pakistan – UNITED SIKHS has collaborated with an Austrian relief agency, the Seventh Day Adventists and Guru Nanak Relief Camp to provide shelter homes, household kits and duvets to assist the Asian quake survivors rebuild their lives. Harsharen Kaur,…
Community Ask for Police Assurance that Knife Detecting Measures Will Not Infringe on Kirpan Wearers Rights London, United Kingdom: The British Police have been asked for a public assurance that Kirpan-wearing Sikhs will not be discriminated against as knife detectors…
New Orleans, Louisiana: UNITED SIKHS attended a meeting in February to build a coalition of organizations to run a recovery and renewal program in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The meeting was an interactive planning session to discover common ground, organize…
Paris, France – UNITED SIKHS has successfully intervened to ensure that 8 year-old French schoolboy, Harjeet Singh, is able to wear his Rimaal (handkerchief on his top-knot) to his elementary school, after his father was told by the principal that he…
New York, NY: UNITED SIKHS made a presentation on Sikhism at a social workers and religious diversity workshop on March 24, 2006, which was organized by the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY), in cooperation with UJA-Federation of New York,…
Darein, Illinois, USA – UNITED SIKHS successfully intervened to ensure that a fitness instructor, Harmeet Singh, was able to wear his Turban at work after he was told by his employer last month that he would have to remove his Turban,…
In December 2005 a combined effort was made by the Sikh youth across London to send 400 school bags to Asian Quake affected areas of Pakistan so that they could be distributed to school children who had escaped death as…