Leader of UN Women stands down

“Be sure that I will continue on the job(p) for women’s empowerment and gender equality.”

Michelle Bachelet, the first head of UN Women, is stepping overcome from her role saying she is returning to her country.

Her decision has led to venture that she is considering keep goinging for election again in her native chile.

Bachelet was Chile’s president from 2006 until 2010.

She was appointed to her pi unmatchedering UN role three years ago, when four agencies work for women were brought together under the one comprehensive of UN Women.

Bachelet’s resignation came at the end of the two-week Commission on the Status of Women where 130 member states agreed on a pledge to eliminate and prevent violence against women.

In her closing lecturing she said: “For personal reasons, I will go sticker to my country. Be sure that I will continue working for women’s empowerment and gender equality.”

Ban Ki-moon, UN’s Secretary General, praised Bachelet’s work saying: “Michelle Bachelet was the adept person in the right job at the right time.

“Her visionary attractership gave UN Women the dynamic start it needed.

“Her fearlessness in advocating for women’s rights raised the global profile of this make out issue.

“Her deal and compassion enabled her to mobilise and make a difference for millions of tribe across the world.”

He said that during her time at the UN she had impelled forward new steps to protect women and girls from violence, new advances on health, and underlined that women’s empowerment must be at the feeling of all that the UN does.

US ambassador Susan Rice said: “Bachelet has been a tenacious and inspirational leader and a role model for women everywhere. She is awesome.”

If Bachelet did decide to stand for the presidency again, it would be a popular decision on the left. When she left in 2010, it was with an 80 per cent approval military rank and her party supporters say there is no ‘plan B’ for another candidate.

Jaime Quintana, president of the Liberal Party for Democracy, one of the parties in Chile’s centre-left coalition, told USA Today: “We tire out’t have a plan B. I’m serious. In the opposition we’re just not prepared for a negative response from Bachelet.” 

As president, Bachelet was credited with kick-starting the Chilean economy and raising per capita income.

People warmed to her informal and sympathetic style, and polls suggest that if she did stand for the presidency again hence she would easily win with 54 per cent of the votes.

Bachelet’s father General Alberto Bachelet died in prison in 1974 after being tortured. Dictator Pinochet’s military had convicted him of being a traitor.

Bachelet and her mother were imprisoned in 1975, and after she went into transport for four years, forrader returning to study medicine and qualifying as a paediatrician.

At the same time she was acclivitous through the Socialist ranks, and for 20 years was a key player in the country’s centre-left coalition  before becoming president.

 

Materials taken from Womens Views on News