Human Rights

The International Day of Awareness about Albinism is celebrated on June 13 of each year and aims to create global awareness in order to avoid abuse and discrimination towards all people with this condition.

We write together and in one voice, with urgency, as people of faith and as religious and spiritual leaders that represent the diverse faith traditions of the United States of America.

Reflections by URI’s Executive Director the Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr.

URI Latin America & Caribe would like to invite all of you to join us in this amazing talk that will be held next Thursday, May 21, 2020. To reflect about how we are going to act spiritually in the "new normal" that is being born.   

"With Sonrío Payasos En Serio" we wanted to tell you that we have news, we were making meetings with the entire team in a virtual way and training to be closer to those who need it most at this moment of so much uncertainty and social isolation.

Last Thursday, March 12, 2020, fifteen (15) women, from seven (7) countries of the Region, representatives of Cooperation Circles and some of them were also members of the Global Council or Global Staff for around two (2) hours, they shared in a pleasant way their feminine experiences and their experiences, dreams and works around the empowerment of women.

URI as a grassroots network tries to strengthen and nourish its relationship with its CCs so that they can bring about massive change to society. Read more to find out the ways in which we do so.

In the current day and age, there has been a surge of women’s movements across the world. URI shares this vision about men and women together helping to build cultures of peace and justice.

PRESS RELEASE -- San Francisco, Apr 24, 2020 -- We are living in a time of crisis: a global pandemic the severity of which we have not seen in more than a century.

We have been working on an advocacy campaign for children with autism in Yemen.