{"id":547446,"date":"2021-05-31T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547446"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:21:12","slug":"syria-elected-to-world-health-organization-executive-board-despite-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syria-elected-to-world-health-organization-executive-board-despite-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Elected To World Health Organization Executive Board Despite Human Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsyria-elected-to-world-health-organization-executive-board-despite-human-rights-abuses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547446&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1211234251.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Human rights activists across the world were shocked, Saturday, when Syria was selected to serve on the board of the World Health Organization despite President\u00a0Bashar Assad\u2019s record of human rights abuses, including unleashing deadly bombing raids on his own citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The decision sparked protests in Syria\u2019s independent regions, where health care workers are targeted by Assad\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria\u00a0on Monday protested a decision to grant President\u00a0Bashar Assad\u00a0s government a seat on the executive board of the\u00a0World Health Organization They said Assad is responsible for bombing hospitals and clinics across the war-ravaged country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/protesters-slam-choice-of-syria-for-board-of-un-health-body-syria-world-health-organization-bashar-assad-idlib-un-watch-b1857120.html\">reported the Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to give Syria a seat came a decade into the country\u2019s devastating civil war that has left untold numbers of civilians \u2014 including many health care workers \u2014 dead and injured,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>The change to the WHO\u2019s executive board came during a \u201clittle-noticed session\u201d of the group\u2019s assembly on Saturday. \u201cSyria was among 12 WHO member states that were chosen to appoint new members for the 34-member board in an assembly vote that faced no debate or opposition,\u201d according to the Independent.<\/p>\n<p>Syria will serve on the body\u2019s executive board beginning Wednesday, where it will become a key decision-maker for the international health organization, which is slated to take up the issue of whether to further investigate the Chinese government over allegations that the COVID-19 virus \u201cescaped\u201d from a virus research laboratory in Wuhan, where the global COVID-19 pandemic was thought to originate.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO previously sent a team to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-56054468\">According to a report from the BBC<\/a>, however, that team told the global health body that China refused to turn over key data necessary to understand how the pandemic was able to take root so quickly. China would not give investigators any raw patient data from Wuhan\u2019s affected, and researchers \u201conly received a summary\u201d of critical data points.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has its own troubles.\u00a0 A report from <a href=\"https:\/\/phr.org\/our-work\/resources\/medical-personnel-are-targeted-in-syria\/\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Physicians For Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0noted that \u201cover the past 10 years in Syria, there were 598 attacks on health care facilities and personnel, 350 health care facilities were targeted, and 930 medical professionals were killed,\u201d leaving their commitment to global health in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria\u2019s election is a travesty,\u201d Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s like appointing a pyromaniac to be the town fire chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria\u2019s Assad regime, with the help of its allies Russia and Iran, systematically bombs hospitals and clinics, killing doctors, nurses, and others as they care for the sick and injured,\u201d he continued. \u201cHealth professionals have also been arrested, disappeared, imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Electing this murderous regime to govern the world\u2019s top health body is an insult to Assad\u2019s millions of victims, and sends a terrible message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s own civil defense workers, known as \u201cwhite hats,\u201d also condemned the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appalled by the WHO\u2019s decision to reward the Assad regime for destroying hospitals and killing doctors and refusing to provide medical assistance to Syrians by electing it as a member of its executive board,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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