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Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights organized a Peace Prayer and solidarity ceremony for the Christian Couple Mr. Shezhad Mashi and Shama Bibi with the collaboration of Religious and Civil Society of Sialkot at its office on 12^th November 2014. The purpose of that Peace prayer & solidarity ceremony was to condemn the lynching young Christian couple by fanatic mob at Kot Radha Kishan

Agriculture training for kitchen gardening is also one of component of “Economic empowerment of Women through vocational, life skills, cultivation for kitchen gardening and computer training project executing by Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights. The main purpose of this component is to improved savings and better nutrition through training for cultivation of kitchen gardens for households. During his visit to Rawalakot Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori participated in the agriculture and briefed the participants regarding the importance of kitchen gardening as well as theoretical training on agriculture.

Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) is executing the project “Economic Empowerment of Women through vocational, life skills, cultivation for kitchen gardening and Computer training” at Rawalakot AJ&K with the collaboration of its counterpart OBOS_Caritas Seoul Korea. PCSW&HR organized the carrier building workshop for the learners of computer literacy centre at Khaigala. 

As an enraged mob on November 4, 2014 beat the Christian couple to death on minor dispute and then burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked at Kot Radha Kishan area of Punjab Province - Pakistan. To condemn this inhuman and shameful act of lynching of a Christian couple by a mob Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights convened its executive committee meeting. Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori Chairman Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights chaired the executive committee meeting. Prominent religious leaders Moulana Abdul Ghafoor Noori Divisional Khateeb Gujranwala Division, Chairman Ulama Mashaiqe Council Dr. Mufti Najeeb Ahmed Hashmi especially participated in the executive committee meeting of PCSW&HR. Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed Qadri, Ch. Muhammad Ijaz, Mansoor Ahmed and others also addressed during the executive committee meeting. 

For Dr. Kazi Nurul Islam, URI Global Council Trustee from Bangladesh, interfaith peacebuilding has been an inevitable part of his life’s path.

URI Executive Director Victor Kazanjian celebrated Arti with H.H. Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, URI Global Council Chair Kiran Bali, and URI UN representative Patrick Nickisch in Rishikesh, India.

On Sept. 6th, as part of YLP for youth we coordinated for a three hour outreach from 10 am to 1pm at ISKCON, Juhu. The outreach included darshan, visiting Srila Prabhupada's museum, interacting with a Muslim Tailor, attending seminar and finally seeing aarthi of the Lord. 

It’s been three months since I attended the URI youth camp as a youth representative from Africa.

Principle 6 of the URI Charter states that, as members, “We give and receive hospitality.” But what does this look like and why is it important?