El Sobrante, CA; Dallas, TX; Washington, D.C., USA; New York, NY: UNITED SIKHS continues its mission to combat discrimination and promote Sikh awareness in partnership with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by holding education and awareness seminars throughout the…
Kalyan Singh Speaks About His Experience After Being Kidnapped by the Taliban from Orakzai Agency. UNITED SIKHS provides Aid to the IDPs in Peshawar Peshawar- NWFP, Pakistan: UNITED SIKHS continues to provide essential commodities to families who were displaced by the…
Richmond Hill, Queens, NY, USA: Last Sunday, UNITED SIKHS partnered with the Jewish Community Relations Council, Council of Peoples Organization, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and the Queens County District Attorney in a proactive initiative to educate, empower,…
“Today is the day, 264 years ago, when a Sikh martyr, Bhai Taru Singh, was scalped alive, by the oppressive rulers of the day, because he refused to give up his faith that required him to wear his hair unshorn.…
Sydney, Australia: UNITED SIKHS volunteers embarked on a journey to celebrate the internationally acclaimed United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) – World Environment Day at their local Gurdwaras throughout Sydney, partnering with Gurdwaras to promote conservation and protection of the environment through…
Washington, DC, USA: An 88-year-old rifle-wielding white supremacist, James von Brunn, opened-fire and fatally injured a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday. UNITED SIKHS, a U.N. affiliated non-profit human and civil rights advocacy organization, and the Sikh community…
New Delhi: On April 11th 2009, UNITED SIKHS organised a workshop entitled, ‘Poems for Peace,’ at Guru Harkrishan Public School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. The year 2009 marks a generation since the 1984 Sikh Genocide in Punjab, Delhi and other parts…
“The college has given us assurances and we are hopeful for a speedy and amicable resolution to ensure that no further injustice is done to the 3 students who were initially told they would be barred from sitting their exams…
Toronto, Canada – On Saturday, May 2nd 2009, UNITED SIKHS volunteers provided langar (meal prepared in a Sikh community kitchen), at the May Day demonstrations, feeding thousands who attended from over sixty grassroots organizations who had arrived in bus-loads from Scarborough,…
On this day exactly three centuries and one decade ago, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, founded the Khalsa with the purpose of upholding truth and justice while living ones life with utmost integrity. These responsibilities…