URI Stories of Impact

Two URI Youth Representatives to the United Nations (UN) joined Malala Yousafzai, the 17 year-old Pakistani women’s and education rights activist, at UN headquarters in New York August 18th.

URI's South India Region held several youth programs, as well as a special guest lecture, for International Day of Peace (IDP) this year in Kottarakkara, India.

Paryusana is one of the two most important festivals for the Jains, the other being Diwali.

The people who follow the Yazidi religion live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. The origin of Yazidi its one of the oldest living religions in Iraq it’s an Assyrian religion. The Yazidi.

It is with great joy that we announce the five new Cooperation Circles incorporated to our family for the month of August!

The URI Horn of Africa Sub-regional Coordinator Mr. Mohamoud Sougueh attended a round table meeting in Djibouti recently, which was organized by the Ministry of Youth on August 19, 2014.

In the last couple of years, the regional URI team here has been supporting Cooperation Circles at a community level, helping them grow broader visibility at the local and national level with stronger partnerships, while strengthening innovative governance within the network of URI.