Category: ICHRA

UNITED SIKHS Canada Condemns Violent Attack at nanaksar Gurdwara in Edmonton & UNITED SIKHS UNITED SIKHS Canada condemns the violent attack at Nanaksar Gurdwara in Edmonton, where two individuals were injured during early‑morning prayers. A gurdwara is a sacred sanctuary, and violence within its walls is an assault on faith and community. While police have… Continue reading UNITED SIKHS Canada Condemns Violent Attack at nanaksar Gurdwara in Edmonton & UNITED SIKHS

Empowering Women To Empower the World & UNITED SIKHS   March 8 2025, is International Women’s Day celebrating this year with the theme “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, adopted unanimously by 189 countries, was an agenda for women’s empowerment which is now… Continue reading Empowering Women To Empower the World & UNITED SIKHS

UNITED SIKHS Commemorates International Day For The Abolition Of Slavery & UNITED SIKHS   The International Day of Slavery is commemorated every 2nd of December. The date reminds us of the immeasurable suffering of millions of African men, women and children under the evil of the transatlantic slave trade. On another note, nearly all classes of the Sikh… Continue reading UNITED SIKHS Commemorates International Day For The Abolition Of Slavery & UNITED SIKHS

UNITED SIKHS Condemns the attack on the Sikh House of Worship & UNITED SIKHS   UNITED SIKHS strongly condemns the aggressive behavior of pro-India protestors who attacked the Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Malton (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), November 3, 2024. Such acts of violence are not only deeply troubling but also constitute a violation of… Continue reading UNITED SIKHS Condemns the attack on the Sikh House of Worship & UNITED SIKHS

Dated: July 14, 2022 Ottawa, Canada This past June,  two innocent and prominent Canadian Sikh men were wrongfully arrested during a peaceful annual rally for the 1984 Genocide Remeberance that led from Parliament Hill to the Supreme Court in Ottawa, Canada. No one has answered about why the Ottawa police arrested and desecrated the articles of… Continue reading Two-canadian-sikhs-wrongfully-arrested-in-ottawa-demand-justice

The advocacy division of UNITED SIKHS has reached out to the Prime Minister of Canada. Farmers in India are enduring government-initiated violence, intimidation through arrests on made-up charges and police harassment for several months now. The Indian government has also deployed cell phone jammers, cut internet services and barricaded the protest sites in an attempt to… Continue reading Letter To Prime Minister Of Canada

United Sikhs Launch Multi-dimensional Strategy To Remove Canada’s Ban On Religious Symbols   United Nations-Associated Humanitarian NGO UNITED SIKHS Continues To Lead Advocacy OTTAWA, CANADA — UNITED SIKHS welcomes the news that Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, has moved forward the approval of asylum and resettlement for Afghan refugees. These… Continue reading United Sikhs Launch Multi-dimensional Strategy To Remove Canada’s Ban On Religious Symbols

United Sikhs Launch Multi-dimensional Strategy To Remove Canada’s Ban On Religious Symbols Quebec, Canada — In response to the passage of a new secularism law, which prohibits public civil servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at their workplace, UNITED SIKHS today launched a plan to formally remove the ban. Citing human rights violations,… Continue reading United Sikhs Launch Multi-dimensional Strategy To Remove Canada’s Ban On Religious Symbols

UNITED SIKHS Applauds Canadian Government Action to Remove “Sikh” Terrorism from Canadian Public Safety Report But Calls For Further Action #AskCanadianSikhs #SikhsAreNotAThreat April 16, 2019 Toronto, Canada : 2018 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada modifies derogatory and inaccurate language from its initial report. To begin with there was no merit, justification or qualification for… Continue reading I AM NOT A LABEL : I AM A SIKH-CANADIAN

Parliament Members Submit Petitions Signed by Thousands of Canadians Supporting Asylum OTTAWA, CANADA – UNITED SIKHS this week announced a call to action in the House of Commons alongside several members of Parliament to address the increasingly desperate plight of religious minorities in Afghanistan. After gaining the support of several policy stakeholders, including MPs Garnett Genuis,… Continue reading UNITED SIKHS CALLS UPON CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER, HOUSE OF COMMONS TO PROCESS ASYLUM FOR AFGHAN MINORITIES UNDER PERSECUTION