Amazing UN Watch 'typo' regarding Saudi Arabia 'has to be on purpose'

UN Watch describes itself on its website as “a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own charter,” and a large part of that yardstick is promoting human rights. A press release distributed by the group today seemed to contain an embarrassing typo in the headline.

Ouch, the typo in this UN Watch headline about #SaudiArabia. #AndYetFitting pic.twitter.com/jSliZyEQd7

— Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) June 8, 2015

Certainly that should read, “…Drop Bid to Be Head of UN Rights Council,” right? UN Watch doesn’t seem to be rushing to issue a correction, though.

@HannahAllam
lol

— DoC© (@DocPakistan) June 8, 2015

@HannahAllam Engineered type, if there ever was one.

— R. S. S. (@_R_S_S_) June 8, 2015

@HannahAllam @rcallimachi #SaudiArabia #AndYetFitting And quite possibly intentional…

— François Heisbourg (@FHeisbourg) June 8, 2015

@FHeisbourg @HannahAllam @rcallimachi Yes. Intentional and not too much effort to hide it.

— R. S. S. (@_R_S_S_) June 8, 2015

Curiously, the same “typo” appears on UN Watch’s website as well, above a photo of a man wielding a scimitar.

https://twitter.com/wolbergstok/status/607998580922687488

@HannahAllam @rcallimachi Apropos.

— Kenneth Freeman (@kencf0618) June 8, 2015