“Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment

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Activities
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The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment (founded 1994) is an organization based in East Lansing, Michigan. It is a signatory to a wide range of public resolutions and petitions and works towards creating awareness on civil rights and humanitarian issues. Shrikumar Poddar was one of three founding trustees of the Bharatiya Temple of Lansing,^[1] who established the temple as a non-profit organization in January 1982.

Activities

The center has worked on issues such as:

Urging Congress to support civil liberties^[2]^[3]
Ending the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.^[4]
Meeting the demands of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and halting the construction of the Maheshwar and Narmada dam projects,^[5]^[6]
Promoting harmony and dialogue between Hindus Muslims, as well as opposing communalism and human rights violations.^[7]^[8]^[9]

The center opposed revisionist edits proposed by two Hindu organizations in California's textbook curriculum (see Californian Hindu textbook controversy).

References

1. ^history
2. ^Letter to House of Representatives Committee
3. ^[https://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/16/usdom8771.htm Asking Congress to Support the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (Human Rights Watch, 16-6-2004)]
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/members | title=Organizational Members | publisher=Save Darfur Coalition | accessdate=2013-04-17}}
5. ^Resolution Of International Ngo'S On Maheshwar Dam
6. ^IRN's Narmada Campaign: NGO Letter to World Bank on SSP
7. ^http://www.promiseofindia.org/AppealList.cfm?SortOption=DateEntered&SortAscending=1
8. ^South Asian Development Partnership, UK
9. ^NRI's for a Secular and Harmonious India

External links

3 : 1994 establishments in Michigan|Hindu organizations based in the United States|Religious organizations established in 1994

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