Legal Organizations & Help

This thread is to help YOU, wherever you are to protect your legal rights, your human rights, and to allow you to practice your faith free of discrimination and with honour. The various sources are legal aides, and should be used to report any bias incidents, and for you to get legal advice. Nobody wants to be alone when bias affects them, and this is a source of sites that are out there to help you:

1. Sikh Coalition - http://www.sikhcoalition.org/
- Report bias incidents
- Based out of New York in response to increased biased incidents since 11th Nov 2001
- Check out their brochures available in 6 languages
- New Khalsa kids website

2. SALDEF - http://www.saldef.org/
- Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund

3. United Sikhs - http://www.unitedsikhs.org/index.php
- Organization runs from the Americas, Europe, and India
- Media presentations and videos to make you aware
- Empowering and Educating Sikhs everywhere

4. World Sikh Organisation - http://www.worldsikh.org/
- Represents Sikhs during UN conferences
- Legal resources and outreach

5. Sikh Federation UK - http://www.sikhfederation.com/
- Representing Sikhs in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and England
- View their campaigns, policies, and get in contact for help

Extra Links for education and historical reference:
- Sikhs in Canada since 1897 - http://www.sikhs.org/100th/
- Sikh Foundation, linking various organisations and community projects - http://www.sikhfoundation.org/default.asp

Please feel free to add to the list, and link important/relevant documents etc.