Browsing Tag: Human rights

Sikh Heroine & 2011 UNESCO Prize laureate Senator Dr Anarkali Kaur Honaryar

Afghan women's rights campaigner is the winners of a United Nations award recognizing her outstanding contributions to the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, the UN announced.
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Proposed Military Custody for Terror Suspects Could Derail Defense Bill

As the Senate prepares for a final vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, battles from the early days of the war on terror threaten to derail a $662 billion defense authorization bill and bring a presidential veto.
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Human Rights Abuses In Punjab Exposed By Wikileaks ~ [OP-ED]

A recent “expose” by Wikileaks mentions the existence of “Alam Sena” (Army of Black Cats responsible for mass tortures and killings) deployed by Mohammad Izhar Alam, a senior Punjab Police officer and a very close affiliate of Punjab CM Parkash Badal.
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The U.N. Puts Women and Girls at Center of Conversation

The oppression of women and girls used to be a fringe issue. This week at the U.N., the 60-year-old institution has taken the health and human rights of women and girls to the center of the conversation.
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Muslim man sues after being fired because of his beard

Employers almost always change their stance after receiving a letter from the council citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers must accommodate workers' religious practice unless it causes the employer undue hardship, Gist said.
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Sikhs say helmets violate their rights

"For us, this is no more a safety issue as it has already been approved in British Columbia, Manitoba, some states in the U.S. and also in England," said Baljit Singh Ghuman, chair of the CSA. "This is more a human rights issue."
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Stand-Up for Religious Rights in the Workplace

Since 2008, Sahaj Singh Khalsa, a Sikh American paramedic from New Mexico, has been discriminated against by his employer because of his religious identity, he has endured disparaging remarks and threats, and even physica assault. SALDEF urges community members to call upon the hospital to accept religious diversity.
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Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Muslim leaders invited to royal wedding

Leaders of Hindu, Muslim, Jain and Sikh religions in Britain are among nearly 2,000 people on Friday's royal wedding guest list that has already generated controversy over the presence and absence on it of some individuals.
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Generations pay off debts through slavery

An army of workers, their faces encrusted with dust, toils beside a story-high pile of unfired bricks. They are helping build a new India that appears to be leaving them behind. From sunup to sundown they spend their time pouring wet mud into molds, lugging them to the kiln, firing them and then pulling them out. For their backbreaking work, they do not receive any wages.
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Gilani grants Sikh wishes

A delegation of Sikh representatives met with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday and presented him with a list of their demands. The prime minister reiterated his government’s commitment to protecting the rights of minorities and women....
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