North America

Members organize dozens of activities around the globe.

I write as the last light drains from the sky on this day commemorating the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King.  I spent the morning in San Francisco participating in an event organized by the San Francisco Interfaith Council, which is a URI Cooperation Circle. Rita Semel, who many of you know as URI's founding board and Global Council Chair is Executive Vice Chair of SFIC; and Michael Pappas, who is a member of the leadership council for URI North America, is SFIC's executive director.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests....

URI keeps working at providing a “safe place” to communicate online. We have set a high standard of communication for our list serves that requires respect and civility. In our list serve communications, URI is working at being the change we want to see. We often fall down in achieving this aspiration - but we keep at it.

December 22, 2010 Today’s Senate ratification of the new START arms reduction treaty with Russia is a major step towards strengthening national and global security.

The first World Interfaith Harmony Week will take place in just four weeks. You are invited to be a participant and a leader in turning this new UN Resolution into a worldwide success.  

A New Year's blessing from URI Global Council Chair Yoland Trevino.

The last hold-out, President Barack Obama announced the United States' support for the 2007 UN declaration in an address to the White House Tribal Nations Conference on Friday, December 17.

Charles Gibbs and Yoland Trevino send a letter of support to UN sponsor, H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan.