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Michelle Bachelet

Left to right: Macky Sall in Dakar, Senegal, February 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui); Rafael Grossi in Seoul, South Korea, April 15, 2026. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP); Michelle Bachelet on March 8, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly); Rebeca Grynspan in San Jose, Costa Rica, October 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)
April 21, 2026, 4:24 pm
Four contenders for UN secretary-general face live hearings; others may join race
Nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi and Costa Rican ex-president Rebeca Grynspan among those vying to replace Antonio Guterres for five-year term at helm of United Nations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
United Nations incoming human rights chief Volker Tuerk speaks during a conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
September 8, 2022, 9:27 pm
Veteran Austrian diplomat nominated as next UN human rights chief
Volker Tuerk has spent many years working for the UN refugee agency and if confirmed would succeed Michelle Bachelet, an outspoken critic of Israel’s human rights record
By AP and ToI Staff
Guard towers stand on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the UN human rights office said in a long-awaited report released Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
September 1, 2022, 1:58 am
UN cites possible crimes against humanity in China’s Xinjiang
Report calls for urgent international response over allegations of torture, other rights violations in Beijing’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs population
By Jamey Keaten and Edith M. Lederer
Illustrative: Palestinians hold a rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in Ramallah, August 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
August 30, 2022, 8:49 pm
UN rights chief accuses Israel of ‘trying to hide’ by blocking monitors’ access
Outgoing head Bachelet blasts Jerusalem for denial of visas to staffers; Israel pans her for ‘once again attacking’ in final hours in office
By AFP and ToI Staff
Demonstrators supporting Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kongers take part in a protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in London, on October 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
August 25, 2022, 2:16 pm
UN report on abuse against Uighurs in Xinjiang might miss its deadline
Outgoing human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office is ‘trying’ to meet self-imposed deadline for long-awaited report on China’s alleged abuses in region
By Jamey Keaten
A Palestinian child injured in the aftermath of Israeli air strikes receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on August 6, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 11, 2022, 6:55 pm
UN rights chief decries ‘unconscionable’ killing of Palestinian children
Michelle Bachelet says 17 minors among the dead in recent Gaza fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, many of whom IDF believes were killed by rocket misfires
By AFP and ToI Staff
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addresses a news conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Dec. 1, 2021. (Sophie Garcia/AP)
May 23, 2022, 12:48 pm
UN human rights chief begins China visit amid concerns it’s a publicity ploy
Instead of thorough probe into alleged abuses, rights advocates fear Michelle Bachelet will get stage-managed tour including in troubled Xinjiang region; US says ‘no expectations’
By Laurie CHEN and Matthew WALSH
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
March 14, 2022, 11:03 pm
UN human rights chief condemns Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 81 on a single day
Bachelet says executions may be related to the ongoing conflict against Iran-backed Houthis and to attempts to silence ‘freedom of expression and peaceful assembly’
By AFP
This combination of pictures created on March 17, 2021, shows US President Joe Biden (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Eric Baradat and Alexey Nikolsky/Various Sources/AFP)
February 21, 2022, 8:59 am
Russia has lists of Ukrainians ‘to be killed or sent to camps,’ US warns UN
In letter to UN rights chief, Washington says an invasion could lead to ‘kidnappings or torture’ of ‘political dissidents and religious and ethnic minorities’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum of Dubai in a video aired by the BBC, on February 16, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)
February 19, 2022, 8:00 pm
Year after ‘hostage’ video, Dubai princess assures UN she is well
Sheikha Latifa, who last year said she feared for her life, meets with rights chief Michelle Bachelet, seeks ‘respect for her privacy’
By Agnès PEDRERO
Protesters hold photos of individuals they say are political prisoners killed in 1988 during a rally to denounce Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi near United Nations headquarters, Sept. 21, 2021 (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
January 27, 2022, 1:43 pm
Naming Raisi, ex-UN officials urge probe of Iran’s 1988 mass execution of dissidents
Former senior United Nations officials and Nobel prize winners call for investigation into killings of some 30,000 detainees, with Iranian president among alleged perpetrators
By AFP
FILE - Ethnic Tigrayan survivor Abrahaley Minasbo, 22, from Mai-Kadra, Ethiopia, shows wounds from machetes he says were inflicted by a pro-government militia on Nov. 9, inside a shelter in Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in eastern Sudan on Dec. 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
November 3, 2021, 2:54 pm
UN report says Ethiopia’s war marked by ‘extreme brutality’ and atrocities
Probe faults all sides; Bachelet says many violations tied to Ethiopian and Eritrean forces, denies investigation came under government pressure
By Jamey Keaten and Cara Anna
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
October 26, 2021, 6:51 pm
UN rights chief slams ‘arbitrary’ Israel decision to outlaw Palestinian groups
Michelle Bachelet says move amounts to an attack on human rights defenders, on freedoms of association, opinion and expression as well as on the right to public participation
By ToI Staff and AFP
Afghanistan's Ambassador to the UN Nasir Ahmad Andisha attends a hosts aid conference on Afghanistan, in Geneva on September 13, 2021. (Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP)
September 14, 2021, 5:27 pm
Fallen Afghan government urges UN to probe Taliban human rights abuses
Envoy Nasir Ahmad Andisha tells Human Rights Council that ‘humanitarian crises are unfolding in the country’ while ‘women’s voices are disappearing from the landscape’
By AFP
Afghan women in burqas walk on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
August 24, 2021, 12:48 pm
UN rights chief says Taliban treatment of women will be a ‘red line’
‘Onus is now fully on the Taliban’ to honor commitments on rights of women and girls, Michelle Bachelet tells an emergency UN session on Afghanistan
By AFP
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