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Human Rights Group Sikhs For Justice To Hold Sikh Sovereignty Conference http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=31318 Conference Will Focus On Sikh Self Determination As Guaranteed By UN Charter! In recent times, India has been propagating that Canadian Sikhs are promoting terrorism and violence...

Sikhs for Justice v. Congress (I) – US Court order for pretrial hearing on May 29 http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/05/26/sikhs-for-justice-v-congress-i-us-court-order-for-pretrial-hearing-on-may-29/ New York, United States (May 25, 2013): A Federal Court in Manhattan will hear 1984 Sikh...

State-Sponsored Genocide From Guatemala to India: A Step Towards Justice Sonny Singh - Musician & social justice educator Huffington Post - Posted: 05/12/2013 5:06 pm In 1984, as the Indian government was terrorizing Sikhs in northern India, mass campaigns of state-sponsored...

Today marks the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, editor, prolific writer, revolutionary and chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into an untouchable caste, Ambedkar was the first...

Ali Al-Khawahir, Saudi Man, Sentenced To Be Paralyzed In 'Eye For An Eye' Justice The Huffington Post - By Ryan Grenoble - Posted: 04/04/2013 9:03 am A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to be medically paralyzed unless he can raise 1 million Saudi Riyal (almost $267,000) to...

admin note: Beginning this Monday, April 1, 2013 respected forum member Tejwant Singh Malik offers the opening prayer to the Nevada State Senate in the United States. His ardaas will be a radio-broadcast, and continues for one week. Tejwant ji was kind enough to give us permission to post his...

Faith, hope and social justice November 27, 2011 Dow Marmur - The Toronto Star It’s always easier for clergy ministering to middle- or upper-class religious institutions to preach about social justice in faraway places than to point to the poverty on the doorstep of the temple, church...

Wall Street Sikhs, Corporate Tyranny, and the 99% by BROOKLYNWALA By now I imagine most of you have heard about Occupy Wall Street in New York City and the growing “Occupy” movement all over the country. Inspired by the mass uprisings of the Arab Spring, the movement is uniting under the...

As tension grows and time passes Sikhs worldwide are concerned over the recent finding of the Sikh Scriptures that were thrown into a well in Udhampur Nalan village in Ropar district, not only were there five copies of the Guru Granth Sahib found in the well it is alleged that alcohol was also...

Justice system weighted in favour of criminals, say MPs Government claims that victims are at the heart of the justice system are misleading as it is actually weighted in favour of criminals, a damning report by MPs has warned. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor The...

11 May 2011 Kanishka bombing by Sikh terrorists was revenge of Op Blue Star: Justice John Major Punjab Newsline Network Wednesday, 11 May 2011 By Satinder Bains and Deepti Dharmani CHANDIGARH: The Kanishka airline bombing killing 329 passengers in 1985 by Sikh terrorists was an...

by DAHWOOD AHMED In the wake of the much criticised Mukhtar Mai decision handed down a couple of weeks ago, a significant judgment by the Supreme Court of Pakistan has sadly gone unnoticed; on April 25, the court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhury, directed NADRA to issue national...

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) – Nearly 3,000 Sikhs, or immigrants from India, live in Southern Nevada. Many fear that a deadly robbery involving one of their own is a sign they are all targets. Sikhs say their distinctive headgear – turbans – set them apart. But they hope this was not a factor in a...

Anju Bhargava Founder, Hindu American Seva Charities On the surface, emphasis in the Hindu and Dharmic (eastern) traditions appears to be primarily on inner self realization. We are encouraged to engage in community service as a transformation practice, sadhana, without personal...

AMRITSAR: He created a business empire on foreign shores and, in fact, contributed in building the first gurdwara in Europe made according to Sikh architecture, but is now fighting to get justice. Ever since a Swiss TV channel aired the success story of NRI Sikh Ranjit Singh Masuta in 2006, he...

Rothwell Polk Interfaith Activist and Freelance Writer For a time, my grandfather, Jack Dew, directed the choir for the renowned Christian evangelist Billy Sunday. In the 1920s and 1930s Billy Sunday was a traveling preacher who visited places throughout the United States. My mother, who...

Chandigarh, January 18: Close on the heels of a Canadian MP of Indian origin, Sukh Dhaliwal appealing to the Indian government to recognize the anti-Sikh massacres of 1984 as `genocide’, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) a US based human rights advocacy group has decided to seek a debate in the...

To: UN High Commissioner for Human RightsFrom: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Legal advisor to Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) Re: Genocidal Events of November 1984 in India. Sub: Intervene On Behalf 30,000 Sikhs Murdered In November 1984 By Congress Party Of India. Date: November...

India's Sikhs wait for justice October 29, 2009 03:46:00 PM For Gurdeep Kaur, this weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the day she saw her son burnt alive during an orgy of anti-Sikh violence sparked by the killing of India's then prime minister. Sitting in her ramshackle home in west...

On Nov. 1, 1984, Daviderpal Bhatia barricaded himself with his family in his living room as gunshots came flying through the door and windows. The South Ozone Park man is a Sikh, and at the time was living in his native India. In three deadly days that November, 30,000 Sikhs in India were...