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In what could point towards a slackening of the once-rigorous standards for recruitment into their Celebrity Goodwill Ambassadorship grooming programing, American Idol survivor and recent Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson was invited to address the U.N. yesterday. She wasn't there to tattle to the Committee on Human Rights Violations about Simon Cowell's Geneva Convention-violating treatment of fellow Idol contestants, however, but rather to represent ladies' face-painting giant Avon (she's their new spokesmodel!) on International Women's Day:

The Virtue Foundation and Avon Products commemorated International Women's Day by bringing newly-minted Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson to the U.N. headquarters. Hudson spoke for about five minutes at the event, called The Global Summit for a Better Tomorrow, and perhaps she was nervous, because she read directly from her notes, with an almost childlike quality.

While her nerves might have gotten the better of her, certainly the situation wasn't helped when Jordanian delegate H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein interrupted Hudson's thoughts on the life-and-death struggles women still face in many regions of the globe by shouting, "C'mon Effie! Let's hear a few bars of 'I Am Changing!' Sing it, girlfriend!" which was quickly met by the raucous approval of the rest of the Dreamgirls-obsessed General Assembly.