A woman and a child get rescued after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru PC : Guadalupe Pardo Lima,Peru – #UnaSolaFuerza In Spanish, it means “one single force.” In Peru, the hashtag symbolizes the rallying spirit of…
Local residents been rescued to a safe place. Queensland, AUSTRALIA – The UNITED SIKHS humanitarian aid team is engaging to serve langar (a hot meal prepared by the Sikh community) to thousands of evacuees affected by Cyclone Debbie, a category 4…
Help us shed light on the extent to which members of the Sikh community experience hate crimes and or bullying. From now until April 30, 2017, UNITED SIKHS will be distributing the UNITED SIKHS 2017 CIVIL RIGHTS SURVEY via email,…
New York: Congratulations to Tejkaran Kaur Bains on being the first Sikh law student to win the best oral advocate award in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition Moot Court. The Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition is a national moot court…
HUMANITARIAN AID: SIKHS IN THE COMMUNITY Volunteers from UNITED SIKHS have been working to support humanitarian efforts in all corners of the globe. Here’s a look at where UNITED SIKHS was and is and the work volunteers have contributed to!…
Norwich, Connecticut: Since 9/11, Sikhs have unfairly become targets of religious-based attacks. Hate crime reports from previous years have shown a troubling trend towards hate-motivated violence against Sikhs mistaken for Muslims. Many Sikhs are now living in fear that the…
Please click here for 2017 Civil Rights Survey. In 2016, the Sikh community saw progress on some of the issues UNITED SIKHS has been advocating for since its incorporation as a civil and human rights advocacy, not-for-profit organization in 1999. Sikh cultural…
New York – While the UNITED SIKHS is unaware of any threats made against Gurdwaras in the United States, we are urging worshippers across the nation to be on high alert. “Given the current climate of our country, and other…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As our country celebrates and honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
Sikh NYPD Police Officers with Police Commissioner James O’Neil NEW YORK: On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, the New York City Police Department Commissioner, James O’Neill, announced that in order to continue to make the NYPD as diverse as possible, NYPD would…