Today: UNHRC appointment will go instead to Alfred de Zayas
Ziegler in SDA News: “I refused to apply for new job; need to stay in current post”
Ziegler in application: “I’m very motivated for new job; willing to end current post”
GENEVA, March 23 – For the first time in his career, veteran UN human rights official Jean Ziegler—who was exposed this year by Swiss TV for his role in creating the “Qaddafi Human Rights Prize,” and then dis-invited from delivering the Salzburg Festival’s keynote address—has been denied a sought-after UN post, a new mandate sponsored by Cuba’s Communist government to ensure “equitable international order.”