Human Rights

All people deserve basic human rights. URI works to ensure no one is left behind.
Kathak Dharohar CC with disabled children on World Handicap Day

By encouraging members of all religions and faith traditions to work together to achieve fundamental human rights for all, Cooperation Circles lay the groundwork for a world of equality and justice. 

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

• URI members in Jordan attended an intensive training on the international legal and policy framework of children's rights, to better protect children living in conflict zones.

• URI Bulgaria marked International Roma Day with social justice and Holocaust awareness training, helping an interfaith crowd understand more about a history of human rights abuses, while helping Roma youth feel more connected to their traditions.

• Karickam International Public School CC, in Kottarakkara, India, educates all children regardless of their caste, creating a culture of equal opportunity.

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Impact of the Solidarity Support Program

Latin America and the Caribbean
Arts
Community Building
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Women

As you know, it is not the institutional policy of URI to support the Circles of Cooperation with fondos. However, in the Asamblea Regional de Chile 2014, the possibility of providing some type of support to promote initiatives of the CCs that need support, given the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of other Latin American and Caribbean communities, was planted.

Declaration of the Community of Reflection and Ecumenical Spirituality

Latin America and the Caribbean
Human Rights

With deep pain and indignation, we invite our compatriots to reflect on the events that occurred in the Community of Temucuicui, Region of Araucanía, where, in an unwise police operation, the 7-year-old girl with the initials G.P.C.A. was subjected to repressive actions. daughter of the Mapuche leader Camilo Catrillanca, also victimized in another police proceeding outside the law. The aforementioned minor was arrested along with her mother and her grandmother by PDI personnel last Thursday, January 7; An action that, shielded in legality, had contradictory spaces that violated the Rights of the Child guaranteed by international agreements signed by Chile in 1990.

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Gathering of Communities of Faith in Thanksgiving

Latin America and the Caribbean
Community Building
Education
Environment
Health and Social Services
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

The Association of Leaders of Communities of Faith - Teusaquillo Territory of Peace CC of Colombia is the last CC created in the region in this year 2020 and is the first CC created in Colombia, which adds another country to the Latin American region. The network continues to grow and we are very happy.