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Courtesy: www.torontosun.com   Calgary, Canada: The Sikh community in Calgary, Canada is shocked that last Thursday their place of worship was vandalized by graffiti depicting a swastika, which is generally associated with symbols of racial hatred. UNITED SIKHS has reached out to the local authorities and requested an increase in police presence around Gurdwaras in the… Continue reading HATE CRIMES ON THE RISE: SIKH GURDWARA VANDALIZED WITH HATE MESSAGE

Random Police Stops(Carding) Have Impacted Sikh Community In Canada   Together with the partnership of Carleton University and UNITED SIKHS, we have begun an ambitious project to understand how Random Police Stops (carding) have impacted our Sikh community. It is well known that minorities in Canada are stopped by the police more often, including our… Continue reading Random Police Stops(Carding) Have Impacted Sikh Community In Canada

Sikh Leaders Advocate for Civil and Human Rights Issues! Highlights: UNITED SIKHS organizes the First Canadian Sikh Summit held in Ottawa, Canada. View pictures here Please support our advocacy work so we can continue to fight for all minority civil and human rights globally. Ottawa, Canada: Sikhs from all parts of Canada gathered together to meet with the… Continue reading FIRST CANADIAN SIKH SUMMIT A SUCCESS

Highlights: Four Canadian Sikhs were refused the right to wear their kirpans at the National Assembly in Quebec.  Click here for more information in a previous press release.   We are calling on the Sikh community to stand strong and show their support by signing this petition for the right to wear kirpan in Quebec   Act… Continue reading show-your-solidarity-for-the-right-to-wear-kirpan-in-quebec-by-signing-this-petition

Sikhs Call on Legislators from Quebec to Respect Minority Rights Highlights:   Four members of the World Sikh Organization of Canada were invited and subsequently uninvited to the National Assembly in Quebec after demands were made they remove their kirpans. Following the incident, Louise Beaudoin, elected member of the Parti Quebecois, boldly justified the exclusion… Continue reading sikhs-call-on-legislators-from-quebec-to-respect-minority-rights

Highlights: UNITED SIKHS presents the 3rd Annual Global Sikh Civil Rights Conference in Surrey, Canada The theme for the conference is Protect Our Identity; continuing our global campaign launched earlier this year Community leaders and members to engage in a dialogue with experts, advocates, authors, and academics on topics of Sikh civil and human rights. Get… Continue reading this-weekend-in-canada-the-global-sikh-community-gears-up-for-the-3rd-global-sikh-civil-rights-conference

Harper Should Raise France’s Turban Ban at Meeting with French Prime Minister: Canadian Liberal Leader Highlights: UNITED SIKHS wrote recently to the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, requesting him to raise his objection to the French turban ban during his meeting this week with his counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault. Sikhs globally believe that a ban on… Continue reading Harper Should Raise France’s Turban Ban at Meeting with French Prime Minister: Canadian Liberal Leader

“We are very happy that the open hearts and minds of the Canadian government and people have given Harender Kaur and her daughter a new life here after they fought a gallant and lone battle as refugees in Pakistan,” said Ranbir Singh, UNITED SIKHS Director who met the Sikh mother and daughter on arrival in… Continue reading united-sikhs-helps-taliban-victims-sikh-mother-and-daughter-find-asylum-in-canada

“The security guards and police officers had no legal justification to apply any force whatsoever to Gagandeep and in doing they committed an assault on his person. The actions of both the security guards and police were reprehensible and unjustified.”  Jagmeet Singh, criminal defence lawyer of Dhaliwal Law, who is representing Gagandeep Singh and… Continue reading sikh-youth-assaulted-by-security-guards-at-toronto-games-arena/

Sikh Appeals Verdict in Helmet Dispute On March 6th, Ontario Court Judge James Blacklock issued an opinion denying Baljinder Singh Badesha the right to wear his turban unhindered while riding a motorcycle. Badesha, a devout Sikh whose practice does not allow his turban to be covered, began combating the traffic citation he received for not… Continue reading sikh-appeals-verdict-in-helmet-dispute