Friday, 10 August 2018

who has been appointed as Chief of United Nations Human Rights?

who has been appointed as Chief of United Nations Human Rights?

Options

1) Michelle Bachelet

2)Michelle James

3)Michelle Jacob

4)Michelle John

answer

1) Michelle Bachelet

Other details

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Michelle Bachelet as the Chief of United Nations Human Rights.

Bachelet also served in 2010 as the first director of UN Women, the UN agency promoting gender equality worldwide.


VerĂ³nica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who was the President of Chile twice, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, the first woman in her country to occupy this position

In August 2018, the United Nations nominated her to become the next High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing Zeid Raad Al Hussein.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights  is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.

The United Nations Human Rights Council  is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

The UNHRC has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.

The 38th session of the UNHRC began June 18, 2018. It ended on July 7, 2018.

The headquarters of UNHRC is in Geneva, Switzerland.