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Bachelet, Michelle

By: Kristina Horn Sheeler
In: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Edited by: Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster & Jane E. Sloan
Subject:Women's Studies, Women in Management, Sociology of Gender

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Chilean President Michele Bachelet, barred from seeking a second consecutive term, leaves a legacy in the human rights area that is creating concern about her successor.

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It’s a rendezvous Michelle Bachelet has never missed during her four years as Chilean president: Human Rights Day, marked last December 10th, in Lonquén, Chile. That’s where dictator General Augusto Pinochet orchestrated one of his first massacres. For Bachelet, the daughter of an assassinated opposition leader, defending human rights is an important legacy.When we abolish liberty and tyranny takes over, all kinds of horrors are possible. For that reason, it’s key that we nurture and perfect our democracy.After leaving her post, Bachelet’s next mission: ensuring that the ...

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  Sheeler, K. (2011). Bachelet, michelle. In M. Z. StangeC. K. Oyster, & J. E. Sloan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 119-120). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n64
  
  Sheeler, Kristina Horn. "Bachelet, Michelle." In Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Firstedited by Stange, Mary Zeiss., Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan, 119-20. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n64.
  
  Sheeler, K. 2011. Bachelet, Michelle. In: Mary Z. Stange, Carol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan Editors, 2011. Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, First edn, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 119-120 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n64> [Accessed 17 May 2021].
  
  Sheeler, Kristina Horn. "Bachelet, Michelle." Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Edited by Mary Z. StangeCarol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan.First ed Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011, pp. 119-20. SAGE Knowledge. 17 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n64.
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