Chile's
Bachelet chosen to be next U.N. Human rights chief
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former Chilean President Michelle
Bachelet to be the world body’s new Human rights chief, the United Nations said
on Wednesday.
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet shows
her ballot during the presidential election in Santiago, Chile December 17,
2017. REUTERS/Carlos Vera
The 193-member U.N. General Assembly is
due to meet on Friday to approve Bachelet’s appointment. She would replace
Jordan’s outspoken Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who is stepping down at the end of
the month after a four-year term in the Geneva-based job.
Ambassadors chairing different regional
groups at the United Nations were told of the decision on Tuesday by U.N.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, several diplomats, speaking on
condition of anonymity, told Reuters earlier on Wednesday.
Sponsored
U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in a
statement that Guterres formally notified the General Assembly on Wednesday.
Bachelet, a victim of torture under the
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was conservative Chile’s first female
leader.
The pediatrician-turned-politician first
served as president of Chile from 2006 to 2010. Her amiable style, welfare
policies and steady economic growth in one of the region’s most developed
countries made her popular.
Bachelet then led U.N. Women, a body for
gender equality and the empowerment of women, between 2010 and 2013, before
returning to Chile where she again served as president from 2014 to 2018,
pushing for a more radical tax-and-spend agenda, as well as broader abortion
rights and gay marriage.
Zeid told reporters in New York earlier
this month that he did not seek a second term because he did not believe he
would have the support of key world powers, including the United States, China
and Russia.
Zeid has been strongly critical of some of
U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies and his attacks on the media.
“Someone said to me ‘just come out
swinging’ and that’s what I did,” Zeid said of advice he was given when he
started the job in 2014. “Silence does not earn you any respect.”
“We do not bring shame on governments,
they shame themselves,” he said.
Zeid said the pressure of the Human rights
job was intense. After a tough week last year, his wife recommended he watch
feel-good reality television show “The Great British Bake Off” to take his mind
off Human rights abuses.
“This man pulls out a soufflé just before
the competition ends and the thing collapses,” he said. “I burst into tears and
I couldn’t stop.”
Reporting by Michelle Nichols; editing by
Rosalba O'Brien and James Dalgleish
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