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On 14 September 2010, Bachelet was appointed head of the newly created United Nations body UN Women by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She took office on 19 September 2010. On 15 March 2013 she announced her resignation. [114]
UN Women will significantly boost UN efforts to promote gender equality, expand opportunity, and tackle discrimination around the globe." [8] On 14 September 2010, it was announced that former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet was appointed as head of UN Women. [9]
Michelle Bachelet was the first female president of Chile, leading the country between 2006 and 2010. [23] During her presidency, Bachelet increased the budget of the National Women's Service (Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, SERNAM) and helped the institution gain funding from the United Nations Development Fund for Women. [8]
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said she will not seek a new four-year term, citing a desire to return to her native Chile after a tenure that has been recently ...
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Michelle Bachelet in 2020.. The Bachelet report is the name given from the press to reports presented between 2019 and 2022 by then-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on the situation of the human rights in Venezuela, which was endorsed later by the United Nations Human Rights Council and opened the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:24, 19 May 2011: 4,069 × 2,938 (3.45 MB): Rec79 {{Information |Description=Head of UN Women, and ex-President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, meeting with Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, on a visit to the headquarters of DFID in London.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...