2025 United Kingdom Delegates
Mejindarpal Kaur
International Legal Director, UNITED SIKHS, United Kingdom
Mejindarpal Kaur is a trustee and the International Legal Director of UNITED SIKHS, a UN associated, humanitarian, human development, and advocacy NGO. She is also a steering group member of the International Partnership of Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD). She has led a global multi-faith effort to address human rights violations post 9/11. This has included the legal campaign against the 2004 French law that prohibits religious signs in state schools. The first victory came in 2012 when the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) found that France had violated the human rights of 18-year-old Bikramjit Singh when they expelled him from school for refusing to remove his turban, an article of his faith. As a humanitarian, she has headed two UNITED SIKHS humanitarian projects - Rescue a Family and Daal Roti. The former empowers farmer suicide widows in Panjab through an education-linked pension program that helps a widow support her children’s education. The Daal Roti project provides monthly food rations for farmer families who live below the poverty line. Mejindarpal also heads another NGO based in Punjab called the Sikh Aid Foundation, whose flagship project is Punjab After School Study (PASS). 72 PASS centers in 33 villages in Punjab, India, provide after-school support five days a week to 2000 needy students from 34 government primary schools.
Mejindarpal Kaur is a trustee and the International Legal Director of UNITED SIKHS, a UN associated, humanitarian, human development, and advocacy NGO. She is also a steering group member of the International Partnership of Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD). She has led a global multi-faith effort to address human rights violations post 9/11. This has included the legal campaign against the 2004 French law that prohibits religious signs in state schools. The first victory came in 2012 when the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) found that France had violated the human rights of 18-year-old Bikramjit Singh when they expelled him from school for refusing to remove his turban, an article of his faith. As a humanitarian, she has headed two UNITED SIKHS humanitarian projects - Rescue a Family and Daal Roti. The former empowers farmer suicide widows in Panjab through an education-linked pension program that helps a widow support her children’s education. The Daal Roti project provides monthly food rations for farmer families who live below the poverty line. Mejindarpal also heads another NGO based in Punjab called the Sikh Aid Foundation, whose flagship project is Punjab After School Study (PASS). 72 PASS centers in 33 villages in Punjab, India, provide after-school support five days a week to 2000 needy students from 34 government primary schools.