Dated: September 9, 2021 New York, NY Last week U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE) introduced the “Welcoming Evacuees Coming from Overseas to Mitigate Effects of Displacement Act of 2021,” also known as…
Dated : September 3, 2021 New York, NY On August 30, 2021, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a hate crime statistics report for the year 2020. Hate Crime Statistics, 2020. This report was compiled from over 15,000…
New York, NY Dated: August 4, 2021 Local residents and civil and human rights activists and protesters have been protesting on the Los Almendros public beach in the southwestern town of Rincon, Puerto Rico for weeks. They believe that private…
July 30, 2021 New York, NY On July 28, 2021, the Indianapolis Police Department and local FBI publicly reported it had concluded its investigation of the April 15, 2021 mass shooting at a FedEx facility. This senseless shooting left…
May 20, 2021 New York, NY On May 18, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Memorandum requiring the Department of Justice to submit a plan of action to increase access to justice and re-establishing the White House Legal Aid Interagency…
Dated: February 24, 2021 Ontario, Canada On Sunday, October 4, 2020, the Assumption College School in Brantford, Ontario, Canada wrongly identified a seventeen year old Sikh student as the child whose image appeared in an anonymous post on Instagram and…
Dear Supporters Jee, UNITED SIKHS joins 75 other organizations in an open letter proclaiming solidarity with the farmers protesting in India. Today, February 16, 2021, the New York Times published an ad regarding the protests in India and the human…
On 30th January we launched our Legal Helpline for persons who went missing after the Tractor Rally in New Delhi. Since then, our legal team has been inundated with calls and emails. In January 2021, based on the feedback on the ground,…
Dear New Yorkers, New York State has reopened its Rent Relief Extension Program. New applications are due by February 1, 2021, but you should apply as soon as possible. What is the COVID Rent Relief Extension Program? The COVID Rent Relief Extension…