The Secretary General tapped former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to be the first head of UN WOMEN. This is a new UN agency to that the UN hopes will raise the profile of gender and women’s ...

UNITED NATIONS – Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet, who has led the U.N. agency promoting women's equality since July 2010, has announced that she plans to return home amid widespread ...

Bachelet is running the newly launched United Nations group U.N. Women. "We're not starting from zero," Bachelet said, adding that the U.N. partners with grassroots women's organizations even in ...

The choice of Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, to develop and then head a new and potentially powerful United Nations agency for women may well be the most important and smartest ...

For Michelle Bachelet, the newly-appointed Executive Director of UN Women, there is no such thing as resting on one’s legacy – no matter how remarkable that legacy may be. Widely celebrated ...

Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet is the front-runner to head the new U.N. agency to promote women's equality, several U.N. officials said.

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 ...

Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female president, advocates for feminism and women's rights. She believes feminism is for everyone and has a remarkable history.

On a press conference call in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, UN Women executive director Michelle Bachelet discussed her plans for the new organization, the challenges ...

Lima (AFP) – Some 30 Peruvian women, including transgender women, gathered Monday to denounce the daily violence they suffer and demand action from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet urged the Taliban to look to other Islamic countries to end their systematic oppression of women, and emphasized their future could grow darker, unless ...