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The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.
Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.
As I read the Indigenous Elders Council Statement on Fukushima reflections and comments of others, and held them all in my heart, I began to journey with my memories of travels with elders around the world.
The Women's and Kids' Education (WAKE) CC held an awareness event for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in the Yohannabad area of Lahore, Pakistan.
University of South Florida (USF) graduate students travelled from Tampa to Malawi on a mission to develop a draft master plan for sustainable tourism in the Liwonde National Park.
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013. URI Africa Regional Director and Special Representative at the Africa Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), led two other URI Africa Leadership Team (URI ALT) members, Hon. Elisha Buba Yero (URI Global Council Trustee) and Dr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba (URI West Africa Laiason Officer), to the State House in Abuja, Nigeria, to present the 2013 Africa Peace Award to Nigeria’s President H.E. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
From 25th -26th October, 2013, 156 delegates from three continents gathered at the Treasures Inn & Suites, Jos, Nigeria for the 5th annual Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue in Jos, Nigeria, hosted by New Era Educational and Support Foundation in partnership of the United Religions Initiative.
On October 31, I represented the TRUST WIN CC at a discussion on the publication of "A Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction" at Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem.
A PCSW&HR’s delegation headed by Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori Chairman Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights called on Mr. Masood Khan Permanent Representative of Pakistan at United Nation at Pakistan Mission New York on 1stNovember 2013.
