WHO membership doesn’t threaten NZ’s sovereignty – walking away from it would

Hagen Hopkins Getty Images When NZ First leader Winston Peters responded to the recent US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) by questioning whether New Zealand should continue funding it, he employed a familiar narrative. Peters was not speaking in his capacity as foreign minister, but describing the WHO as an organisation full of “unelected globalist bureaucrats” nonetheless plays into fears that New Zealand s membership is a risk to national sovereignty. The rhetoric mirrors