Middle East and North Africa

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.

On January 15th, the Association of the Egyptian Female Lawyers concluded the training for media personnel about women's rights in Conventions and MAPUTO Protocol in Cairo.

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.

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.

Making the most of the connections within our global network, URI members in Jordan hosted a cooperative cleanup in Zay Forest for Environment Day.

In honor of Environment Day, URI members in Jordan made the most of their connections within the URI network and hosted a cooperative park cleanup effort.