World Cup-winning All Black Sonny Bill Williams drew criticism from UNICEF Wednesday for tweeting graphic photos of dead children after visiting a Syrian refugee camp, AFP reports.
The images were posted less than a month after Williams went to camps in Lebanon with the United Nations' Children Fund, as part of a UNICEF
The humanitarian organisation said the images were not taken during the trip and Williams did not consult it before posting the photos, the New
Zealand Herald reported.
"I don't think anyone would be happy about those kinds of images. It certainly wasn't something that he consulted us about and they weren't images that he'd taken on the trip with us," it quoted UNICEF New Zealand's spokesman Patrick Rose as saying. "We see it as a fundamental infringement of those children's rights. But at the same time, we don't have the capacity to censor or edit private citizens' showing what they find on their individual explorations online."