Sikh group asks Obama to help end ethnic profiling

New York, Nov 6 (PTI) United Sikhs, an international
advocacy group, has asked President-elect Barack Obama to make
eradication of poverty, fighting climate change, resolving
conflicts around the world and protecting religious freedom as
his top priorities and help end ethnic profiling.

In a letter to Obama, the group offered its support to
Obama in his efforts to face enormous challenges.

Sikhs, it said, support his broad moral agenda that
includes a deep concern for poverty, peacemaking, ethics,
equality, and respect for the environment.

"During the campaign, you said that, if elected, you
would face powerful special interests trying to block change,
and that you need a citizen's movement to support and push
you," the group said and offered to work with him to achieve
these aims.

It also urged the President-elect Democrat to work to
end genocide, mass murders, enforced disappearances, use of
torture, death penalty and secret detentions across the world.

Besides, it also urged him to work for fulfilling the
Millennium Development Goals agreed by the world leaders to
drastically cut or eliminate several social and economic ills
by 2015.