URI Stories of Impact

As we mark International Women’s Day 2017, there remains much work to do on delivering transformative change towards gender equality.

Mar 07, 2017. 

Dear URI Community,  

The Multiregion invites you to join us on Thursday March 23 at 10:00am PST for the first webinar in the new Sankofa Webinar Series: "Wisdom of Our Elders: Looking Back to Go Forward."  

In recognition of International Women's Day 2017, URI recognizes two of its outstanding women leaders: Nour Darwish with Makers of Hope Cooperation Circle in Libya, and Farah Hussain Al Badran with Larsa Cooperation Circle in Iraq.

Mar 06, 2017.

A world free of nuclear weapons.  Is it desirable? Is it possible? 

Your VOICE is needed in this important webinar, on nuclear weapons abolition taking place on Friday March 24 at 1:00AM GMT (Thursday evening  6pm PST, 6:30am in India, 9:00am in the Philippines, etc).  

Purim (which starts the evening of March 11^th this year) is one of the most festive Jewish holidays.

This afternoon I had the privilege of representing URI North America at a press conference in front of the White House responding to the recent executive order on refugees and immigrants.

A joint reflection with Rita Semel on the desecration of Jewish cemeteries

Real progress leaves nobody behind.