Browsing Tag: Violence

"There's no question it's part of a broader pattern of violence and harassment against Sikhs that we're seeing," said Simran Jeet Singh, the religion professor. "I can speak to that as someone who's working on these issues, and from anecdotal experience. I've been called more names on the street in last two weeks than last two years."

“It is this partnership with law enforcement and with the community that changes the community for good,” said Modesto City Schools Board trustee Cindy Marks.

He says he’s equally hopeful it touches parents in the South Asian community too – who he says sometimes value wealth to the point that it affects their kids.

August 5th, 2015 marks the three-year anniversary of the shooting inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. On that tragic day, six people lost their lives, and four others were injured when Wade Page opened fire on a sunny Sunday morning. This weekend, memorial events are planned to honor the victims who lost their lives in this shooting.

Leaders from Britain’s biggest religions gather in the House of Lords to make a commitment to stamping out domestic abuse

Dal Khalsa's youth wing 'Sikh Youth of Punjab' (SYP) held a road show to express their anguish and concern over the rise of drug menace, criminalization of politics and sexual violence against women.

Sangat TV, a Birmingham-based satellite TV channel, was handed the penalty by Ofcom after screening a programme that was found to have “seriously” breached the regulator’s code, which must be followed by independent broadcasters.

In those moments, I did a lot of soul searching. I think we all did. As a parent, I had to think beyond myself.

The United Nations is sending its special envoy to India to investigate the rising cases of violence against women, four months after the fatal gang rape...

But in the US, both in terms of tradition as well as law concealed carrying of dagger or sword clashes with the norms of life.

Gun issues vary from locale to locale. A ban imposed in 1994 on semi-automatic weapons during the Clinton administration had expired in 2004. After the CT shooting, gun control advocates asked for the ban to be reinstated.

“For 20 years, or at least 15 years, India was obsessed at least in the chattering classes with two cleavages: religion and caste,” he said. “The other cleavage, which is gender, was ignored.”

But the all-male conversation by the sea in Goa ended on a note that did not offer much hope for the thousands campaigning on the streets for an end to sexual violence.

Muslim and Western nations overcame deep divisions to agree on a landmark United Nations code to combat violence against women and girls.

Envisioning imminent prospect of an intense Gun Control debate, pursued in the interfaith arena through intense activist interventions by church groups, I concurred that we need to be meaningfully engaged in this debate as a faith group.

In some parts of the world, the plight of women and girls is certainly getting worse, and in others it seems, inconceivably, that the scourge of violence is simply not improving.

Over 50 attendees signed a memorandum as a symbol of perseverance for the struggle of couples in Sikh society. GGSSC- Canada held a seminar at Rexdale Sikh Spiritual Centre, Toronto on 'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN SIKH HOUSEHOLDS!'.

According to UN-Women, progress of World Women 2011-2012, as many as 7 in 10 women in the world report having experienced physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lifetime. Statistics indicate that violence against women and girls is a universal phenomenon, irrespective of income, class and culture.

Speaking on the opening day of the CSW in New York, Bachelet said that although the phrasing of the text was important, what was needed was the will and action to eliminate violence against women and girls.

In the global effort to tackle violence against women, what works and what doesn't?

We may never understand what kind of hate and anger drives a person to take the life of another, but we know it must stop. There is no room for hate crimes in any society,....

A former neo-Nazi, Tony McAleer, says he takes some “moral responsibility” for the 1998 murder of Nirmal Singh Gill, a caretaker at the Guru Nanak Sikh temple in Surrey, even though McAleer was not directly involved.

Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sikh Americans faced many of the same discriminatory conditions as Muslims and Arab Americans. Because of their distinct appearance, they were visible targets of violence and harassment.

It’s hard to think of a baby being violent or destructive, but the seeds of violence may be planted before a child is born, according to research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Attention to health factors as early as the prenatal stage could prevent violence in later life...

“If governments, international organizations or aid groups are able to use those forecasts, the forecasts of El Nino effectively, they might be able to either prepare populations on the ground or themselves prepare their own resources to be in a better situation when conflict breaks out.”

A study by US scientists has concluded that an average of 48 women and girls are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study, in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 400,000 females aged 15-49 were raped over a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007.

In the wake of a bloody fight at a South Richmond Hill temple last week, Sikhs are working to educate police and others on a community they say is peace loving and mortified by the clash between individuals wielding swords and cricket bats. “The whole community was walking around with their heads down, ashamed,” said Gurpal Singh.

Several Sikhs were denied entry into the Quebec legislature Tuesday amid a heated debate over multiculturalism and where to draw the line when it comes to tolerating cultural practices.

Canadian Sikhs are wondering, why the double standard? While violence and looting in Montreal last night after the victory of the Montreal Canadians over the Pittsburgh Penguins has been attributed to a “small” group of 500 individuals, the entire Canadian Sikh community has been smeared by certain politicians and media as violent and prone to extremism due to the irresponsible comments and actions of a few.

(Recent events) have given rise to fears of a revival of Sikh radicalism in Canada — perhaps on the scale witnessed in the 1980s and 90s, when Sikh separatism flared up in the Punjab and terrorists in Canada destroyed Air India Flight 182.