Two URI Youth Representatives to the United Nations (UN) joined Malala Yousafzai, the 17 year-old Pakistani women’s and education rights activist, at UN headquarters in New York August 18th.
The 24 indigenous and culturally diverse members of the South Eastern Indigenous Interfaith Council Cooperation Circle (CC) Georgia, USA, are one of URI’s newest groups, forming this past April.
Euro-Asia, with members located in Novosibirsk, Russia, is made up of 15 people—many of which are from the indigenous Altai tradition and from Siberia.
Prometra, a URI Cooperation Circle as of this past April, was formed in 2000 to respond to the poor health conditions and inadequate modern health services in Kampala, Uganda.
“We realized we were not alone and must do this work together - being a global indigenous family is needed now. A great wave of change for peace has begun to roll over the face of Mother Earth."
