Michelle Bachelet

U.N. Women's Michelle Bachelet: An Effective Advocate for the World's Women

Stephenie Foster | Posted 05.14.2012

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Michelle Bachelet is the first Executive Director of U.N. Women, and in that position she leads the U.N.'s work to advocate for gender equality and the empowerment of women.

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2.4 Million People Are Victims Of Human Trafficking

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 04.04.2012

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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one tim...

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Hillary Clinton Makes Jab At Republicans

The Daily Beast | the Daily Beast Video | Posted 05.11.2012

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"So how do you like my jacket?" Hillary Clinton asked, as she did a star turn on the stage to show off her green, white, and black jacket with sparkle...

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WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.15.2011

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Behind all of the lofty rhetoric and idealism, serious fissures remain within South America's leftist movement, both within individual countries and within the larger regional milieu.

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The World's Women and the Pursuit of Justice

Michelle Bachelet | Posted 09.07.2011

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Our report is a call for action -- setting challenges for national governments, civil societies and the international community. UN Women will work to support this agenda, with the benefits to be felt by everyone.

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Startling Facts From New U.N. Agency's Report On Women

Posted 09.05.2011

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The United Nations' newest agency -- UN Women -- takes an ambitious and sometimes startling look at gender equality and women's rights around the worl...

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An Inside Look at UN Women's First Year

Elizabeth Dickinson | Posted 09.05.2011

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UN Women is releasing its first annual look at the state of females worldwide. And it focuses on exactly that: peace and justice, a sector that underlies many of the areas in which women lag behind.

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'Taking The Gender Fight Worldwide'

nytimes.com | KATRIN BENNHOLD | Posted 05.29.2011

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PARIS -- "I am a woman, a Socialist, divorced and agnostic," the new defense minister told the generals of her Roman Catholic country. "But we will wo...

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Muslim Women's Self-reliance and Clinton's Guidance Could Ensure Reforms

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

In this crucial post-coup stage, women who fought for change should heed the betrayals of gender rights in Algeria and Iran during periods of crisis.

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We Must Declare a Non-Violent Revolution

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Are we so complacent that we feel we do not need to demand gender equality? Many women are convinced there is equality between men and women. But this simply is not true. Here are the facts on the matter.

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Celebrating Women Who Forge Democracy In Liberia

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Liberia is not only the first country in Africa to democratically elect a woman as president, but the home to one of the first female peacekeeping units.

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Who Would You Add to Women Deliver List of 100 Heroes?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Women Deliver today released the Women Deliver 100, a list of the one hundred most inspiring people who have delivered for girls and women.

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Supporting a Real Women's Champion

Ritu Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

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Economies are strained worldwide, but economies will be the first to benefit if women are fully able to participate in all of their nation's activities.

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UN Women's 100-Day Plan: Vision, Ambition and Common Sense

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011

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All of us who care about women's issues should applaud the path Michelle Bachelet is forging for UN Women.

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Condi's Bizarre Relocation Plan for the Palestinians

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the Palestinians, undertaking a new life in Chile was infinitely superior to languishing at the Al Tanf refugee camp. Yet, this outlandish story raises fundamental questions about the Palestinian struggle and its long term political prospects.

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Can UN Women Reverse the United Nations' Absent-Minded Approach to Gender Equality?

Natalie MacNeil | Posted 05.25.2011

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More alarming than the lack of hoopla surrounding the launch of UN Women is the fact that women are rarely appointed to leadership roles within the agency.

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WikiLeaks: FBI Now Keeping Tabs on Native Americans -- in South America?

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Historic FBI shenanigans committed against Native Americans are well known. But WikiLeaks documents now reveal that the they have their sights set on indigenous peoples farther afield as well.

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Wikileaks: So Much for Left Wing "Solidarity" in South America

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Oliver Stone's recent documentary South of the Border, leftist regimes in Latin America are depicted rather idealistically. In country after coun...

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How a Government Takeover Saved 33 Lives

James Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The private company that sent those men down thousands of feet to dig for copper and gold could not possibly have funded and organized the rescue operation. So it was taken over by the government of Chile.

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Be a Vote for Ubuntu

Birute Regine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The great leaders of the twenty-first century will have ubuntu. Leaders with ubuntu recognize how their humanity is inextricably bound to others -- if others are diminished, so are they.

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Why World Alzheimer's Day Matters

Maria Shriver | Posted 11.17.2011

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Today is World Alzheimer's Day, an important day all across the globe, as this epidemic continues to steal minds, take lives, and gain momentum. And it is also an important day for me personally, as a child of Alzheimer's.

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UN Women: Bachelet Popular Choice but Job Ill-Defined

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

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The woman is perfect for the job of heading a new U.N. women's "entity." The question is whether she will have more than potential, such as finances, staff and recognition rather than contributing to the blizzard of documents on promoting and protecting women.

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Jennifer Beals: What a Feeling!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Beals is the iconic symbol of the 1980s -- big hair, leg warmers and a feline body, star of Flashdance. But the Jennifer Beals of 2010 has morphed into an activist.

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A Lesson in Power by World Leaders

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not often that you get to sit in the same room with a group of world leaders and hear their wisdom, ideas and experiences at the personal and political levels. I've just enjoyed that privilege. And the world leaders were all women.

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'NYT' Caption Error: Funniest Ever? (PICTURE)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Tuesday's web edition of the New York Times may have brought one of the funniest caption mistakes of all time. As the Awl pointed out, in the age of ...

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