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Surviving a Fake Encounter: The Story of Surinder Singh Fauji

Yesterday on International Human Rights Day, we focused on the practice of "fake encounters" in India.

International Human Rights Day: Stop False Encounters in India

Last week, India’ National Human Rights Commission informed the Supreme Court of India that it has confirmed 191 ‘false encounters’ in the past five years. ...

Asking the Hard Questions on Gender Based Violence

Today's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women and the 'days of action' following the International Day for the Elimination of Vio...

Compassion (Daya) as a tool to end gender based violence

Today, as we move to day 5 of the 16 days of activism to end gender based violence, World Sikh Organization of Canada would like to share a tool that we thin...

Khalra Centre holds consultation on Human Rights and Law at Amritsar

Amritsar, Punjab (November 26, 2012): Human rights bodies namely Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), Khalra Mission Organization (KMO), Punjab Human Rights Orga...

Ending Violence Against Women

By Sukhvinder Kaur Vinning (Executive Director, WSO) Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In many parts of the wor...

Celebrating Guru Nanak's Message of Equality

The World Sikh Organization of Canada extends its warmest greetings on the Gurpurab (birth anniversary) of Sri Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith.

WSO Takes Part in Vaughan Festival of Light

On Thursday November 13th, WSO joined several other faith and cultural communities in Vaughan for the Festival of Light.

In Remembrance

By Pardeep Singh Nagra Approximately over 250 000 Sikhs served in the World Wars. They served and saw action in all the major campaigns of WW1 in France and...

Canadian MPs visit 1984 Sikh "Widow Colony"

Canadian MPs Parm Gill, Kyle Seeback and Minister Tim Uppal visited Delhi’s ‘Widow Colony’ yesterday. The visit was not made public and was not covered by t...