Washington DC, USA: On July 6, 2016, UNITED SIKHS kicked off its third annual Advocacy and Humanitarian Aid Academy in Washington, D.C. The Academy is an intensive six-day training program in which young students from around the world interact with government…
Ludhiana, Punjab: A 40-day Entrepreneurship Skill Development Program on Garment Manufacturing organized by UNITED SIKHS kicked off on June 02, 2016 at village Dhamot in Ludhiana where the participants will be trained in garment manufacturing. The program will continue till July…
Orlando,USA: Late Saturday night leading into early Sunday morning, Orlando, Florida was stunned by a devastating hate-crime when 29-year-old Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub (an LGBT community based social lounge), and gunned down more than 49 individuals, also wounding…
ONTARIO: – The UNITED SIKHS expresses dissatisfaction with the Ontario Liberal Government’s vote to defeat a motion that would have recognized the brutal murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs as genocide. The November 1984 Sikh Massacre, in which an estimated…
“My MP said he could not help me because it was not under his purview and a Sikh Govt Minister said that I should be prepared to take my CFA level 2 examination this Saturday without wearing my Kirpan”, Rattan…
As the devastating Alberta fire that was detected on May 1st begins to slow in growth, UNITED SIKHS as well as other organizations, continue to bravely hasten their services for the thousands of residents who were affected. Families’ lives have…
88,000 Residents of Fort McMurray and neighboring communities were forced to evacuate. Alberta, Canada: Wildfires have destroyed at least 1,600 homes in Alberta, Canada, and forced the mandatory evacuation of 88,000 people — including the entire city of Fort McMurray. Thousands…
Dr Sardar Suran Singh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister on Minority Affairs Peshawar,Pakistan: UNITED SIKHS volunteer and an eminent member of the Sikh community Dr Suran Singh has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan. According to various sources, he was assassinated in…
Hackensack, New Jersey: More than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released by U.S. Department of Housing…
TABANOVCE, MACEDONIA – Thousands of refugees at the Macedonia border remain in limbo for weeks now at a refugee camp, near the small town of Tabanovce, unable to pass through to Serbia for the borders have been shut, according to UNITED…