UK Sikhs Continue to Face Problems Wearing Articles of Faith While Court Rules in Favour of the Sikh Kara UNITED SIKHS Calls on UK Government to End Discrimination by Issuing a Code of Practice for Wearing Sikh Articles of Faith…
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“UNITED SIKHS calls on the State to grant Sikhs a statutory right to wear a kirpan to end harassment faced by Sikhs,” – Jaspreet Singh, Staff Attorney Stamford, CT, USA: The prosecution dropped charges against 47 year old truck driver, Sachdev Singh,…
Dallas, Texas, USA – UNITED SIKHS applauds the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency whose mandate is to end discrimination in the workplace, for filing a suit against a Texas company that refused to hire a Sikh because of…
BELGIAN COURT OVERTURNS BAN ON SIKH HEADCOVERING IN SCHOOL “The Court has sent a clear message that it is illegal for a school to deny education to a student because of his religious belief,” said Walter Van Steen Bruggen, the…
UNITED SIKHS thanks school for swift and positive action Coventry, U.K. – A state school this week reversed its policy of banning the patka (Sikh head dress) after UNITED SIKHS wrote to the school principal last week on behalf of the parents and…
Queens, NY: A 9th grade Sikh student at Richmond Hill High School was recently attacked by a fellow student who had been bullying him for some time. The victim had previously reported being bullied by this classmate several times to both…
Sikhs Take French Turban Ban in Schools to the European Human Rights Court London, UK – UNITED SIKHS lawyers announced today that they filed a legal challenge last Friday to the French law which banned the turban in public schools in…
New York, NY, USA – The Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) addressed the Sikh community at the Annual Sikh Day Parade in downtown Manhattan on April 26th. The EEOC is a federal agency working to end employment discrimination within the United States,…