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The United Religions Initiative global network celebrates World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) around the planet!

What are some of the negative assumptions that are made about young people? And how can your actions change these? What is tokenism and why is it damaging for meaningful inclusivity? What makes intergenerational dialogue work well? Find out all this and more!

January 27th marks the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Therefore, the Youth Connection Café for this month focused on the importance of this day, why it is important to remember the Holocaust and what the experiences of anti-Semitism look like in our world today.

Watch this video highlighting the work done by young people in URI around the world during 2021!

“There is no Tourism without conservation, there is no Peace without a Green planet and there is no Sustainability without future generation equality in conservation.” Read about the experiences had as part of the Eco-Arts Initiative Children’s Camp in Rwanda

Young leaders from North America/Multi-Region (Erin Adarve and Vasu Bandhu), Europe (Mirjona Hoxhallari and Emina Frljak), and West Africa (Clement Awanfe Ngueto) represented URI, along with Regional Coordinator for North America Tahil Sharma and member of the URI UN team Audrey Kitagawa, at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna, Italy from Sept 11 - 14th. Read about their experiences here! 

Circles of Light 2021 took place on October 5. This annual, unique virtual gala for the benefit of URI brings together our global community to participate and celebrate URI’s network around the world.

See photos and stories of how the global URI community celebrated the International Day of Peace this year.

July 8 was an exciting day in Lilongwe, Malawi, as 18 young people from across the country gathered to begin the URI Interfaith Intercultural Youth Training Programme.