It was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit who granted Raphael Lemkin the legitimacy he needed to establish the Genocide Convention 1/
#VijayaLakshmiPandit knew and worked along with Golda Meir. 2/
She had strong feelings on Israel/Palestine and received life-threatening pressure to back off as she presented alternative solutions, but she pressed ahead. 3/
She always pursued amity between communities and had an untarnished record in this regard. 4/
And ironically it was she who brought…South Africa up before the world body and defeated them along with the greatest lawyers in the world, setting the precedent for international human rights. 5/
She was one of the most renown and universally admired figures of the 20thc. She brought her popularity to bear on the most thorny of issues. We can benefit from her wisdom today. /end.
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