AFTER MUMBAI: INDIA’S UN AMBASSADOR ENDORSES WIESENTHAL CENTER CALL FOR UN TERRORISM ACTION
Ambassador Sen’s support is a major step to helping to break UN gridlock
His Excellency Nirupam Sen, India’s Ambassador at the United Nations, (pictured with Rabbi Hier) endorsed the idea of a UNSpecial Session
The briefing today follows the Wiesenthal Center launch of a global online campaign (www.wiesenthal.com), a grassroots effort calling on the President of the UN General Assembly to convene a Special Session. At a recent press briefing, leadingHindu and Sikh representatives joined Jewish and Muslim leaders to propose a consortium of faith leaders to also urge the UN to take action through spiritual and educational outreach. Sri SriRavishankar, a revered Hindu leader who helped the Wiesenthal Center in convening their historic 2007 interfaith conference, "What the world needs now," he said, "is for the guiding principles ofnonviolence and truth to be propagated with greater intensity."
Since 2003, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has spearheaded a campaign to have suicide bombings declared a ‘Crime Against Humanity’.The goal of the campaign is to create a legal tool for victims to go after sponsors and those who inspire this deadly culture of mass murder worldwide. To this end, Center officials have broughtthe initiative to His Holiness, the late Pope John Paul II and his successor Benedict XVI; then-Turkish Foreign Minister Abdallah Gul and to key diplomats from over 20 countries.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agenciesincluding the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.