The India Chapter of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) conducted a national conference in Pondicherry, India from the 26th to 27th of May, 2017. Representatives from many states attended - giving all participants a good opportunity to interact with IARF activities, to...

This guest post on our blog is by Dranwell Barishisha "Barri" Mukhim. Barri is a member of the Unitarian Union of North East India; here, she writes about what Indian Independence Day (August 15) means to her as a http://unitarianchurchnortheastindia.blogspot.com/2010/10/unitarians-in… Unitarian.

At the end of June, Unitarian Universalists gathered in Columbus, OH for a week of learning, worship, and activism. The Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly this year brought a special perspective to UU social justice work. The theme for GA 2016 was “Heartland: Where Faiths...

by Daniel Lofredo RotaIndia court recognises transgender people as third gender NYT:...

Great news from Rev. Khlur Mukhim! May the music be a blessing. Dear friends,...

www.uucsj.org">UU Holdeen India Program partner. Though we had read about SEWA’s work empowering some of India’s most impoverished women, nothing could have prepared us for the morning we spent with the rag pickers. We met with these workers in the place they labor each day: the municipal...

The following post was written by service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. Of all the things I’d imagined would seem welcoming about my return trip to India, the smell of the Mumbai airport had not been one of them. As soon I stepped out of the...

The following post was written by UU Church of Charlotte. He is currently taking part in a Vidhayak Sansad, the center of such astounding activity in this area of such astounding need and opportunity....

The following post was written by Rev. Kathleen McTigue, director of the service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. On Tuesday we traveled from Mumbai to Usgaon, the village where partner organization Vidhayak Sansad is based and where it has...

UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ). She is currently coleading a service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. The first of our UUCSJ journeys to India is now under way!...

On September 18, 1887 Hajjom Kissor Singh started the journey of organized Unitarianism in https://maps.google.com/maps?q=shillong&hl=en&ll=25.750425,91.5… East India. And, on that same day in 2012, 125 years later, the anniversary celebration and worship of the members of the Unitarian Union of...

On Wednesday I arrived in New Delhi to spend a few days with Derek, getting the chance to watch him 'in action' during site visits with urban partners. We began these visits with SEWA - the Self-Employed Women's Association - founded by Ela Bhatt in 1974. UUHIP has partnered with SEWA since its...

Unitarian Union of North East India (UUNEI) celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding with a series of special events from June 2012 through February 2013....

UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is to increase the capacity of Unitarian Universalists to catalyze justice....

On Saturday May 25th, 600 runners turned out for the Unitarian Union of North East India's (UUNEI) 4K "Quasquicentennial Green Run" in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Unitarianism's founding in the Khasi Hills. Drawing participation from all over the Khasi-Jantia Hills region of the north...

Kathy Sreedhar, a champion of social justice in India for five decades, is retiring from the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) at the end of June. For the last 28 years she has built the program into a major force for grassroots social change in India. She has identified...

The First Universalist Church of Denver July 1st at First Parish in Concord Derek will speak about the challenges UUHIP partners face in opposing injustice and their groundbreaking achievements. His captivating accounts of social change carry lessons for those seeking justice anywhere in the world.

In January 2012, six members of International Convocation of UU Women (ICUUW), visited the Unitarian churches and schools of northeast India, in a region called the Khasi Hills, one of the poorest regions of India. There we learned that these private, rural schools provide the only access to...

On October 31st the United States Chargé d'Affaires in New Delhi, Ambassador Peter Burleigh, held a dinner in honor of Kathy Sreedhar, Director Emerita of the UU Holdeen India Program (UUHIP). Ambassador Burleigh hosted the dinner at Roosevelt House, the historic Ambassador’s residence on the...

Derek Mitchell, the new Director of the UU Holdeen India Program (UUHIP), shares the following update: During August and September, friends of the...

In keeping with a historied tradition of honoring individuals who have had a transformative impact on society, Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study bestowed this year's Radcliffe Institute Medal upon Ela Bhatt, founder of the UU Holdeen India Program partner....

UU Holdeen India Program partner Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan (SUTRA), as a winner of their "Property Rights: Identity, Dignity, & Opportunity for All" competition at last week's annual a pilot program of five naya sasurals, comprised of 10 single women and their children, to demonstrate the value ...

This is an essay by a student of the Dalit Shakti Kendra (DSK) vocational school in Ahmedabad, a partner of the which President Morales attended last month on his...

Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a partner of the UU Holdeen India Program, is on the list of International Women's Day, advocacy organization International Women's Day takes place on March 8th; this is the 100th anniversary of this special day.

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and with leaders of the here.) The Khasi Unitarian movement he founded is now the third largest group of Unitarians or Unitarian Universalists in the world....

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and with leaders of the...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and with leaders of the...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and with leaders of the...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), embarked upon a two-week journey to India to visit with several partners of the Unitarian Union of North East India (UUNEI). This blogpost by Rev. Morales is part of the continuing coverage of the...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), embarked on a two-week journey to India to visit with several partners of the Unitarian Union of North East India (UUNEI). This blogpost by Rev. Morales is part of the continuing coverage of the...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and with leaders of the Vidhayak Sansad. I saw the seeds of a social revolution at a girls' school in Usgaon last night. I looked out at 177 girls. They were smiling, alert, overflowing...

On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), embarked upon a two-week journey to India to visit with several partners of the Unitarian Union of North East India (UUNEI). This blogpost by Rev. Morales is part of the continuing coverage of the...

Rev. Peter Morales to Meet with Human Rights Activists and Union Leaders MUMBAI – On February 14, 2011, Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), embarks on a two-week journey to India to visit with several partners of the Unitarian Union of North East India...

Global Fairness Initiative Award to Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a partner of the conferred the prestigious Niwano Peace Prize. [youtube EEKPwCNuV_Y] Related: Transcript of Clinton honors SEWA founder The UU Holdeen India Program:...

The UU Holdeen India Program has been providing support to AIDMI since 1996. Pioneers in the area of disaster risk mitigation, AIDMI believes that relief is only one part of the disaster scenario: Prevention and development are also essential components. Communities have a lead role to play while...

The India chapter has been doing inspiring work in the area of human rights education (HRE), and interfaith event organization....

Breakthrough, a UU "Bell Bajao" global campaign on domestic violence yesterday at the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has joined the campaign as the inaugural global "Champion," and Breakthrough will align with his said Dutt at the Clinton Global Initiative....

The UUA's International Resources Office is happy to announce the release of "UUHIP: Partners for Justice in India," a great introduction to the work and philosophy of the Unitarian Universalist Association's http://www.uua.org/aboutus/professionalstaff/advocacywitness/holdeenind… India Program.

The Niwano Peace Foundation has chosen Ms. Ela Ramesh Bhatt as the 2010 honoree of the Niwano Peace Prize . In selecting Ms....

As noted in Holdeen India Program Partner - was the recipient of the 2009 "Harriet Tubman Freedom Award" from Free The Slaves. Please share this video about the important and inspirational work of SMS.

It's been an exciting week for the American Courage Award from the Asian American Justice Center. Founder and executive director of Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture, Mallika has been utilizing the power of media, popular culture, leadership development, and community education in India...

Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS) – India, a partner of the Free the Slaves. Open to organizations and individuals working to defeat the human trafficking industry, The Freedom Awards celebrate heroes of the anti-slavery movement from around the world. With nominations from twenty-two countries,...

Please welcome guest blogger Wendy Harris writing from a tribal village near Vasai in the state of Maharashtra, India where she has spent the summer working with UU Holdeen India Program partner Vidhayak Sansad. “You lead English prayer?” The request, by the exercise instructor at the end of the...