Media Summary: U.N. revokes Mugabe ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ role after UN Watch protest
CTV VIDEO INTERVIEW OF UN WATCH’S HILLEL NEUER: Mugabe's U.N. Honor Rescinded After UN Watch Protest “Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe has brutalized human rights activists, crushed democracy dissidents and turned the breadbasket of Africa — and its health system — into a basket case. The notion that the U.N. should now honor Mugabe as a great supporter of health is, frankly, sickening.”— UN Watch's Hillel Neuer interviewed on Canada's CTV News. After UN Watch's protest sparked an outcry worldwide, the U.N.'s health agency cancelled the absurd appointment of Mugabe as a 'Goodwill Ambassador.' ====More than 140 news agencies quoted UN Watch — see headlines below. Links to articles are here: https://www.unwatch.org/un-watch-sparks-outcry-worldwide-mugabe-appointed-goodwill-ambassador/Reuters: Choice of Mugabe as goodwill WHO envoy shocks, bafflesCNN: Robert Mugabe removed as WHO goodwill ambassador amid outcry#BBC News: Robert Mugabe’s WHO appointment condemned as ‘an insult’The New York Times: W.H.O. Removes Robert Mugabe as ‘Good-Will Ambassador’Washington Post: WHO’s ’goodwill’ appointment draws the opposite Washington Post: WHO rescinds ‘goodwill ambassador’ appointment of Zimbabwe’s Robert MugabeThe Times: WHO denounced over ambassador role for Robert Mugabe (paywall)Agence France-Presse: WHO chief rescinds Mugabe ambassador role after outcryThe Independent: British government leads barrage of criticism after World Health Organisation names Robert Mugabe a ‘goodwill ambassador’ABC News: World Health Organization rescinds Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ‘goodwill ambassador’ appointment amid scathing criticismNewsweek: What do Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama and Robert Mugabe have in common? Five appointments that shocked the worldCNBC: Choice of Mugabe as WHO envoy shocks human rights groupsNew York Post: WHO’s sickening honor for butcher MugabeCTV News (Interview …
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