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Bachelet Poised for Easy Win in Fed-Up Chile
Like many Chileans, Alejandro, who owns a small supermarket, hopes the next government will curb social inequality. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPSBy Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Nov 15 2013 (IPS)Voters...
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Bachelet’s Promised Reforms Could Face Uphill Struggle
Michelle Bachelet in a meeting with the representatives of the Nueva Mayoría coalition the day after her victory. Credit: Michellebachelet.clBy Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Dec 16 2013 (IPS)The promised...
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Education Is Key to Bachelet’s Chile
High school students attend classes and talks to get a look inside a higher education centre, at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPSBy Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO,...
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Bachelet to Recalibrate Chile’s Foreign Policy
Michelle Bachelet speaking to international media correspondents. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPSBy Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Mar 11 2014 (IPS)For the past four years, the foreign policy of Chile, South...
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Chile Graduates in Earthquake Preparedness
President Michelle Bachelet visiting a shelter on Apr. 3 in Camarones, one of the areas worst-hit by the quake, 2,000 km north of Santiago. Credit: Office of the Chilean PresidentBy Marianela...
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Chile’s Patagonia Celebrates Decision Against Wilderness Dams
Patagonia Without Dams activists broke out in cheers when they heard the decision reached by a ministerial committee to reject the HidroAysén dam project on Tuesday Jun. 10. Credit: Courtesy of...
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Natural Gas – Both Crisis and Solution in Chile
Aerial view of the Mejillones Liquefied Natural Gas (GNLM) regasification terminal in northern Chile, the biggest of its kind in Latin America and one of the biggest in the world. Credit: Courtesy of...
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‘Therapeutic Abortion’ Could Soon Be Legal in Chile
Alicia is one of the millions of Chilean women who have had an illegal, unsafe abortion because in their country terminating a pregnancy is punishable with up to five years in prison, regardless of the...
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Chilean Activists Change the Rules of the Game
Michele Bachelet (left) and student leader Camilla Vallejo. Credit: WikipediaBy Sebastian RosemontSANTIAGO, Dec 6 2014 (IPS)In 2011, students in Chile made headlines when they launched a nationwide...
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Opinion: Goals for Gender Equality Are Not a ‘Wish List’ – They Are a ‘To Do...
A women-led village council in rural Bangladesh prepares a “social map” of the local community. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPSBy Phumzile Mlambo-NgcukaSANTIAGO, Feb 27 2015 (IPS)This weekend, at the invitation...
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Everyone Benefits from More Women in Power
Group photo at the high-level international meeting on Women in Power held Feb. 27-28 in Santiago, Chile, which analysed the human rights of women, as part of the major events held worldwide 20 years...
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Women Leaders Call for Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Post-2015 Agenda
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet during the closing ceremony of the international meeting “Women in power and decision-making: Building a different world”. On the podium, U.N. Secretary-General Ban...
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Healthy Oceans Key to Fighting Hunger
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addressing the second international Our Ocean conference, held in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Sitting next to him are Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz and...
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“París Is Not the End of a Climate Change Process but a Beginning”
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet during an exlusive interview with IPS in the Blue Room in the Moneda Palace, the seat of government, in Santiago, before flying to Paris to participate in the Nov....
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Anti-Torture Law Helps Pay Off Chile’s Debt to Human Rights
About 20,000 people a year visit the Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace, built in the foothills of the Andes mountains, where the city of Santiago lies, from the ruins of what was the biggest torture centre...
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Measures Are Proposed to Address Violence in Mapuche Land in Chile
Members of the Mapuche people during one of their demonstrations defending their rights, in particular their claim to theirancestral lands, in the region of La Araucanía, Chile. Credit: Fernando...
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Defence of Right to Water Drives Call for Land Reform in Chile
Small-scale farmers from Samo Alto, in northern Chile, are forced to share the scarce water of the Hurtado River with large agro-exporters, who benefit from a dam built downstream. In this country,...
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Chilean President’s Apology to the Mapuche People Considered “Insufficient”
Representatives of the Mapuche, Lonko and Machi people attend the raising of the flag in the Plaza de Armas in Vilcún, 700 km south of Santiago, one of the numerous ceremonies held in Chile on Jun. 24,...
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Clean Energy Sources Manage to Cut Electricity Bill in Chile
The Maipo River, where the Alto Maipo hydroelectric project is being built, flows down from the Andes range to Santiago and is vital to supply drinking water to the Chilean capital, a city of seven...
View ArticleGovernments Cautioned Not to Use COVID-19 Lockdown to Cause Harm
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on governments and leaders around the world to ensure that their respective lockdown measurements don’t end up causing harm to people by...
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Clinton Champions Gender Agenda at Busan
Hillary Clinton at Busan Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPSBy Miriam GathigahBUSAN, South Korea, Nov 30 2011 (IPS) Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely...
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Q&A: Women Must Be at the Forefront of Rio+20, and Beyond
Isabelle de Grave interviews MICHELLE BACHELET, Executive Director of UN WomenBy Isabelle de GraveUNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 2012 (IPS) Unlocking women’s energies and allowing them to become drivers of...
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U.N. Women Demands End to Impunity for Wartime Rape and Violence
In 2007, Angeline Mwarusena, who lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was repeatedly raped by soldiers from Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). Credit:...
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OP-ED: Making Cities Safe for Women and Girls
By Michelle BacheletDUBLIN, Feb 19 2013 (IPS) There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: This is not happening in my...
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SLIDESHOW: Violence Against Women Takes Centre Stage in New York
By Mathieu VaasUNITED NATIONS, Mar 6 2013 (IPS) On Sunday, Mar. 3, nongovernmental organisations working on women’s rights gathered in New York City for the annual meeting of the NGO Committee on the...
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U.N. Meet on Women Wrangles Consensus to Address Violence
Michele Bachelet (left), Executive Director of UN Women, addresses a press conference on the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), taking place at UN Headquarters in New...
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Chile’s Bachelet Will Try to Win Over Social Movement
By Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Mar 28 2013 (IPS) Michelle Bachelet, who hopes to win a second presidential term in Chile, will have to win over the growing social movement that has been heavily critical...
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Presidential Hopefuls in Chile Speak Out Against Wilderness Dam
By Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Jun 27 2013 (IPS) Diversifying the energy mix and the spectre of energy shortages in Chile are central issues in the campaign for the primary elections this Sunday Jun....
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Chile’s Women Candidates, Not Two of a Kind
Michelle Bachelet: "This is not about two similar women standing for the presidency." Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS By Marianela JarroudSANTIAGO, Aug 20 2013 (IPS) “There’s something sexist about...
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