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Wonder Woman Named Honorary U.N. Ambassador For Gender Equality

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Wonder Woman Named Honorary U.N. Ambassador For Gender Equality

by The Daily Eye Team October 17 2016, 3:10 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

The United Nations has announced a new honorary ambassador for women and girls, and she's not a human woman or girl. She's a comic-book superheroine.

According to a U.N. statement, Wonder Woman will be officially appointed Oct. 21, which is the 75th anniversary of the character's debut.

"Wonder Woman's character is the most iconic and well known female comic book superhero in the world, known for her strength, fairness and compassion, and her commitment to justice, peace and equality," Maher Nasser, outreach director of the United Nations' Department of Public Information, said in a statement to NPR.

Read more at www.npr.org



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