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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.

180 youth activists and civil society representatives participating in the PACEY Award gave one of the two prizes to Faith for Earth Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Youth For Peace-led program building cooperation between Catholic and Muslim youth on environmental action.

The real danger of a nuclear catastrophe is not from a planned attack from Russia, which is what our defense strategy implicitly assumes. Our real danger is from an accident, such as responding to a false alarm, or a political miscalculation.

In September of 2021, Emina Frljak from Bosnia and Herzegovina attended the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna, Italy. In reflecting on this event, Emina has some important thoughts to share. 

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

The "Creating the Way" Youth Exchange was hosted by Association Focus on Youth, Romania with participation of another three organizations; Desert Bloom, Jordan, Human Rights Research Center, Georgie and Youth Empowerment Center, Greece.

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.