Health and Social Services

SOMESHA visited the Community Concern Organization (COCO) offices, including the Medical Center Hospital (MCH) in Hamar-jajab district in Mogadishu, to observe their health services, including those for HIV/AIDS patients and sexual violence survivors.

Hope in Life Foundation, working alongside One Global Family Foundation, Council of Interfaith and Indigenous Women, Shirdi Sai Temple, and Tarzana, collaboratively served over 300 homeless brothers and sisters.

To acknowledge the efforts and services of Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) for the empowerment of women through its various activities and protection of women rights, PCSW&HR invited to attend the UN 60^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) held at United Nations New York USA from 14 – 24 March 2016. Chairman PCSW&HR Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori, and Executive Director Mr. Mansoor Ahmed represented the PCSW&HR in the CSW 60. During their visit to USA Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori chairman PCSW&HR & Executive Director Mr. Mansoor Ahmed held meeting with Pakistan permanent representative in United Nation H.E Dr. Maleeha Lodhi at her residence in New York USA. 

Around 90 Christian and Muslim males, females and children were examined. Their eyesight was checked and free medicine was given.

While there is violence in many parts of our world today, members of URI prove everyday that we can live together in peace! As news of the recent shooting in San Bernadino, California continues to unfold, we remember that this is who we are.

In one Golden Women’s Vision CC program, members made cakes and distributed them to orphans from different religious denominations.

Golden Women’s Vision CC shares their work in Uganda and describes the plight of the communities they serve.

As on 28^th August 2015 the Indian Army resorted to heaving firing and shelling in village Kundanpur along the Sialkot working boundary on innocent and unarmed civilian population which claimed more than eight lives and injured more than 48 including 22 females. To show solidarity with the martyred and affected people Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights organized interreligious peace and solidarity prayer at village Kundanpur. Hindu, Christian and Muslim’s religious and political leaders, civil society members, teachers associations, and others participated in the peace and solidarity prayer. A peaceful protest was also held to condemn the Indian’s Army inhuman act. 

With the world's eyes fixed on the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East, URI Cooperation Circle from Germany to Bulgaria to Bosnia and Herzegovina are building "safe places" and "giving hospitality" to refugees. With the recent influx of refugees, Cooperation Circles across Europe are mobilizing to welcome refugees, providing for basic needs and more.

Today we received very sad news of the passing of a very special leader and peacebuilder in the Philippines, Orlando Guzman. He was suffering from acute infection and diabetic complications.