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BLUE SMOKE: A monthly column, from PassBlue and UNA–UK, spotlighting senior appointments at the UN

Sebastián Piñera

TOPIC: WOMEN

Michelle Bachelet, Outgoing President of Chile, Gets a WHO Post

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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the board of the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she finishes her government role on March 11. The announcement came after a Jan. 10 meeting…
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For UN Member Nations, ‘Vulnerability Is a Global Phenomenon’

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Hassan Rouhani
The annual United Nations debate of the 68th General Assembly got off to a contentious start on Sept. 24 with pointedly worded but divergent speeches by Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, and Barack Obama, the president of the United States….
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Chilean Voters Want Michelle Bachelet Back Home

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Michelle Bachelet, the UN Women chief, in Jaipur, India, on Oct. 4, 2012
A series of opinion polls in recent months in Chile show that Michelle Bachelet, the executive director of UN Women, is still the most popular Chilean politician three years after her four-year term as the country’s president ended. Reports…
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