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Michelle Bachelet

September 2022

  • Members of the Uyghur community hold pictures of their relatives detained in China, during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Rights groups call for inquiries into Uyghur abuses in China after damning UN report

  • Michelle Bachelet with China’s foreign minister Wang Yi in Guangzhou, China, May 2022

    The UN’s report on the Uyghurs nearly didn’t see the light of day, thanks to China

    James McMurray

June 2022

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet

    UN human rights chief could not speak to detained Uyghurs or families during Xinjiang visit

    Michelle Bachelet says she was supervised by China officials throughout six-day visit that critics have called a propaganda coup for Beijing
  • Michelle Bachelet addresses a press conference after saying she would not seek a second term

    UN human rights chief to forgo second term amid China trip criticism

    Michelle Bachelet, strongly criticised over Xinjiang visit, cites personal reasons for decision
  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visits China.

    West demands publication of UN’s long-awaited Xinjiang report

    Michelle Bachelet’s report on alleged rights abuses in China’s Uyghur region remains under wraps despite recent six-day tour

May 2022

  • A leaked photo of Uyghurs detained in Xinjiang, China.

    The Guardian view on the UN in Xinjiang: a grave error

  • Michelle Bachelet, the UN’s human rights chief, with the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, on Monday in Guangzhou, China

    Xi Jinping defends China’s human rights record to visiting UN commissioner

  • Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights

    UN rights chief’s visit to China will be held in ‘closed loop’, Beijing says

  • People protest outside the UN in Geneva against Michelle Bachelet’s planned trip to Xinjiang.

    UN human rights commissioner criticised over planned Xinjiang visit

March 2022

  • UN high commissioner for rights Michelle Bachelet

    Russia may be committing war crimes in Ukraine, UN human rights chief says

  • The UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet

    UN human rights chief to visit China, including Xinjiang, in May

September 2021

  • Members of the Taliban at Kabul airport.

    Taliban reassure UN over safety of humanitarian workers in Afghanistan

    Written assurances also say aid agencies will be able to operate independently of government and will be free to employ women

August 2021

  • Destroyed buildings following fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Kunduz

    Taliban told that Afghan government installed by force will go unrecognised

    Military takeover of Kabul will cast insurgents as ‘global pariahs’ warns US ambassador as more towns fall

June 2021

  • UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

    UN warns of worst ‘cascade of human rights setbacks in our lifetimes’

    Rights chief calls for concerted global action, citing recent violations in China, Russia and Ethiopia

February 2021

  • Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives at independence day celebrations in Colombo on 4 February.

    Rights and freedom
    Sri Lanka at 'tipping point’ with risk of return to past atrocities, activists warn

    Civil rights groups say situation ‘getting worse on a daily basis’ as UN human rights chief expresses alarm over deepening impunity

October 2019

  • Protesters walk near a burning barricade in Santiago.

    'They smashed me in the head': anger at Piñera as Chile's bloodied protesters allege brutality

    Death toll rises to 15 in worst unrest Chile has faced since Pinochet, as armed men in masks prowl Santiago firing at defiant crowds

September 2019

  • SWITZERLAND-UN-RIGHTS<br>UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet attends a press conference one year after she took office at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on September 4, 2019. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

    Bolsonaro taunts UN rights chief over her father's torture by Pinochet regime

    Brazilian president said without the dictator ‘Chile would be a Cuba today’ after Michelle Bachelet criticized rising police killings

August 2019

  • People walk past a wall reading ‘Down with Trump’ in Caracas, Venezuela

    UN rights chief decries latest US sanctions targeting Venezuela

    ‘Extremely broad’ measures could increase suffering in the country, says Michelle Bachelet

November 2018

  • Shahidul Alam after his release from Dhaka’s central prison on 20 November.

    Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam released from prison

  • Young Rohingya refugees at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on 14 November 2018

    The Guardian view on returning the Rohingya to Myanmar: don’t make them go

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