Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment
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The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment (founded 1994) is an Indian American organization based in East Lansing, Michigan. The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment is a signatory to a wide range of public resolutions and petitions.
Areas of interest in the United States include support for civil liberties [1][2] and support for bringing pressure to bear to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan [3]. The group's stances on issues in South Asia include support of the demands of Narmada Bachao Andolan hunger strikers in Bhopal and the halting of the construction of the Maheshwar and Narmada dam projects [4][5] Opposition to communalism and human rights violations [6][7][8]. The center has been active in interfaith dialogue [9].