Bruce Kent, Coalition For Religious Freedoms, To Pledge Backing For Sikhs In Parliament

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

BRUCE KENT, COALITION FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS, TO PLEDGE BACKING FOR SIKHS IN PARLIAMENT

People of all faiths and people of none, trade unions, the Mayor of London and other politicians, peace activists and many others came together on 6 June to launch a Coalition to Defend Freedom of Religious and Cultural Expression that would uphold these fundamental human liberties and rights.

Bruce Kent, Britain’s best-known peace campaigner who was General Secretary and later Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) became the first Chair of the Coalition. Harpartaap Singh represents the Sikh Federation (UK) and is the only Sikh voice on the Steering Group of the Coalition.

Bruce Kent has kindly agreed to address Sikhs and politicians at the Sikh Lobby at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 30 October and will be speaking at 11.45am in Committee Room 18.

He is expected to announce the Coalition will be writing to the UK Government expressing its concerns on how long it has taken to start to develop a Code of Practice for Sikh articles of faith. It is also expected he will raise the need for the Code to be comprehensive and introduced as soon as possible so Sikhs no longer face wide scale discrimination because of their articles of faith.

Gurjeet Singh

National Press Secretary

Sikh Federation (UK)

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