Today, as part of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, I work to ensure that all Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women are able to access the full breadth of rights and protections to which they are entitled.
"The launch this year of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – UN Women – demonstrates our intent to deepen our pursuit of this agenda. Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter." - Ban Ki-moon
Elk Grove Police Chief Robert Lehner said in a statement: "We have no evidence to indicate there was a hate or bias motivation for this crime; however, the obvious Sikh appearance of the men, including the traditional Dastar headwear and lack of any other apparent motive, increasingly raise that possibility."
The big trafficking routes begin in Nepal and Bangladesh, go through India, and culminate in the Gulf states and European countries. For instance, girls from Nepal end up as sex-workers, boys from India end up in the Gulf states as riders in illegal camel races. About five lakh children under 18 are part of India's sex trade, according to the CRY report.
There was a strong Sikh presence in Bollywood, but they never came to the fore-front as Sikhs, because of inherent taboos instilled and strengthened that somehow, movies are taboos for Sikhs. It also gave birth to an unfounded perception that persists that the Sikhs in Bollywood movies are presented as “buffoons”. Bollywood has been making caricature of minorities.
The first occupant of the “Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Sikh Studies” at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Mann is an eminent inter-disciplinary scholar of Sikhism and interestingly holds a joint appointment in the Global and International Studies Program and Department of Religious Studies.
This video addresses a question from a SikhNet user asking about the concept of "Jhoot", and not sharing food with non-amritdhari's. He was wondering why some Sikhs practice this.
The findings suggest millions of people with diabetes are undiagnosed or poorly treated, putting them at risk of an early death from heart disease or significant complications of diabetes, such as blindness, chronic kidney disease and foot problems that can require amputations.
The Central America and Caribbean region continues to be used as a major transit point for the large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs because of its location at the crossroads of the main producing countries in South America and the consumer markets in North America and Europe.
Now, a grassroots movement is fighting back. Invoking a little-known law from 1994 that allows local councils to impose prohibition in the areas they control if two-thirds of voters support them, dozens of Punjab villages are trying to shut down such shops.