URI Stories of Impact

URI-Asia invites the URI community to the 2011 International Interfaith Conference on Holy Books and inauguration of the International Peace Research Institute in in Kerala, India.

Last night I witnessed a burst of historic heroic citizenship in the USA when I watched a PBS special program called The Freedom Riders. In 1961 racism was ugly, mean, unjust, and embedded in American society. Southern states enforced Jim Crow legislation and local police enforced segregated sitting rooms in bus and railroad stations in cities across the South.

On April 8, 2011, Sahredaya Interfaith Forum, Mylom CC held a eye donation awareness class. As a result of the meeting, twenty-five people came forward to sign consent papers to donate their eyes... Read more...

Children of the Earth invites you to attend a one day International Intra-faith Gathering. Through the gathering, we hope to bring together youth from various backgrounds and faiths to be able to open up, share and learn with other participants through group interaction, guest speakers, a meditation class, games, a documentary film showing, and much more. Dr. Kul Chandra Gautam, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF will be the guest speaker. 
 

We are happy to announce the inauguration of URI International Peace Research Institute (IPRI) in Kerala in conjunction with the Fourth International Holy Books Conference (Intertextuality Series),...

"The labor of our heroes past shall never be in vain”, reads the fifth line of the Nigerian national anthem. which I recited every morning during my primary school years; the anthem, I had...

Having been around the UN maze for some years as an NGO representative, I can testify to both the thrills and the frustrations that come with work in this massive international body.  The United...