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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.
The Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian Jr., Executive Director of URI, shares his thoughts after the inauguration of Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice-President of the United States of America.
Give a warm welcome to the newest three groups to join the URI global network. We are excited to announce the first URI Cooperation Circle in Colombia!
With deep pain and indignation, we invite our compatriots to reflect on the events that occurred in the Community of Temucuicui, Region of Araucanía, where, in an unwise police operation, the 7-year-old girl with the initials G.P.C.A. was subjected to repressive actions. daughter of the Mapuche leader Camilo Catrillanca, also victimized in another police proceeding outside the law. The aforementioned minor was arrested along with her mother and her grandmother by PDI personnel last Thursday, January 7; An action that, shielded in legality, had contradictory spaces that violated the Rights of the Child guaranteed by international agreements signed by Chile in 1990.
Following the horrific events at our nation’s Capitol, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, I saw the sacred in the responses of a Democrat and a Republican. I also remembered the mob holding up its symbols of the sacred.
