Human rights groups have condemned the United Nations for hosting a women's empowerment summit in Beijing last week, claiming that delegates overlooked reports of women facing enslavement, forced ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet announced Monday she will not be seeking a second term after a botched envoy to determine the veracity of Chinese human rights abuses.

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday expressed "increasing alarm" at violence in Ethiopia's ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his country’s human rights record on Wednesday, telling a visiting UN official there is “no need for ‘preachers’ to boss around other countries.” Xi’s remarks, ...

Former President of Chile, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet is the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which was established ...

The climate crisis is having a devastating effect not just on the places we live, but also on our human rights. As the existential issue of our time, it will take center stage at this year’s UN ...

Throughout the 1980s Milton Friedman insisted that Chile had to reintroduce political freedom if it wanted to preserve the newly created free market institutions. In the long run, authoritarianism, ...

On the evening after her landslide victory in Chile’s presidential election, Michelle Bachelet, the once and future leader of the country, stood before 10,000 cheering supporters and made a broad ...

Former Chilean president and torture victim Michelle Bachelet is set to become U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. The U.S., no longer on the human rights council, wants her to focus on Venezuela ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called July 2, 2010, a "watershed day." That was when the General Assembly approved the creation of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the ...

GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, condemned on Monday how the United States is treating migrant children arriving from Mexico, saying she was “shocked” at the ...

Michelle Bachelet was born in Santiago, Chile on September 29. She lived in the United States between 1962 and 1963. Most of her high school studies were at Liceo No. 1 Javiera Carrera in Santiago. In ...