Bachelet back in world spotlight as UN Women Executive Director

[rabs]

But the AP writer would have readers think that she is using the position to become a "party girl" who stands "about 5 feet (1.52 meters) tall in black slacks tucked into faux fur-trimmed snow boots, her round, bespectacled face framed with short, feathery blond hair .... "
:shrug:

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By ANITA SNOW
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS -- Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is counting on the lavish dinners, cocktail parties and meetings of world leaders and wealthy executives as she travels to Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to raise funds for the new United Nations agency promoting gender equality.

The World Economic Forum will be an international coming-out party for Bachelet, and the kick start of her campaign to raise $500 million over two years for UN Women, created by the General Assembly last year when it pulled together four existing U.N. bodies dealing with women's advancement under a single umbrella.

The swirl of social events also will give Bachelet the chance to prod some of the world's power brokers to give money and include more women in their ranks, and do more to ensure that 51 percent of the world's population gets equal treatment.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tapped Bachelet for the job last fall and his selection of the popular Latin American was greeted with widespread approval among the world body's 192 member states.

The AP version

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/26/2034906/former-president-back-in-spotlight.html#

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DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

Former President of Chile and United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for UN Women, Michelle Bachelet outlined her vision for the newly formed agency at UN Headquarters in a press conference today (January 25).

Bachelet declared UN Women’s key priorities as empowerment, economic and political leadership, peace and security, preventing violence against women, and developing tools for implementation of these priorities at a national level.

She also used the occasion to announce her participation in the current World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to promote “the economic and social case of women in the world.”

“We will be presenting the voice of women in many places and as a matter of fact, I am going to Davos today. I am flying to Davos because I intend there to present there the economical, political and social case of women in the world.”

Bachelet noted the success of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, offering businesses guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community.

“We will continue calling on companies to sign on the Women’s Empowerment Principles, which commit them to increasing the number of women employees and managers. One hundred thirty-three CEOs of major corporations have already signed on. Something that I will highlight in to corporate leaders in Davos.”

“Lastly I want to share with you our new logo. This is the UN Women’s logo. Of course it will be in all the languages”

UN Women, the largest single UN body ever charged with the advancement of gender equality is known formally as the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

Established by the General Assembly in July 2010, UN Women is the merger of four former UN agencies and offices: the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues, and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW).


Brief video of above with Bachelet speaking very good English.

http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/d/16862.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. She is perfect for that position, isn't she?

It would be a loss to the world if she didn't stay active in public life.

Can Bachelet serve as President at a later time? Sure hope so.

As for Anita Snow, I have a photo showing her wearing a white cotten eyelet blouse, round wire-rimmed glasses, pearlized nail polish, and sporting a tossled head of hair needing to be washed, as she speaks with super-creepy, pig-like U.S. ambassador James Cason, in Havana.

http://lh3.ggpht.com.nyud.net:8090/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/SLaPwJoUPjI/AAAAAAAAAWE/sIRi4zEqvbs/July+145+copy.jpg
How sad reporters don't take the opportunity to give male subjects the old once-over, and evaluation for the articles they do on them, too!

Maybe they will move on to letting us know how they SMELL, as well, with an eye toward whether the subject had bathed that week month or not!

[rabs]

2. LOLing about how the AP should describe how male politicos dress, their shoes, etc etc

Yes, Michelle Bachelet is eligible to run for the presidency again in 2014. She would win by a landslide should she decide to run. But have seen articles that she will not.

Short video "We want more Bachelet for Chile in 2014"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mn2CgG2tQk


Btw, read some days ago that Pinera's approval rating has dropped to the mid-40s, about 10 points then when he was inagurated 10 months ago.

The slow pace of rebuilding the earthquake damage, the firing of more than 7,000 Bachelet-period civil burocrats, the reorganization of education (making it more expensive), the non-resolution of the Mapuche and Rapa Nui land conflicts and more recently the gas/fuel crisis in Punta Arenas/Puerto Natales have been dragging him down.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Just read today Pinera's administration has gotten rid of a lot of people who were working

on prosecution of Pinochet-era human rights criminals.

They claim it won't prevent the work getting done, but it WON'T be done without the man/woman power needed.

Good news about Pinera's approval rating. It should be a good reminder to the population of how much better things went with a good President!

Hope she will run again, after all.

[EFerrari]

3. Pobre Anita Snow and her low self esteem.

Bachelet is a brilliant woman and any organization is so lucky to have her on board. :)