--- description: Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michelle Bachelet ## Michelle Bachelet Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights_ ## Michelle Bachelet Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Mar 31, 2016 ### [The Americas Are Stronger Together](https://time.com/4278115/president-of-chile-michelle-bachelet/) 'The Americas as a whole have much to gain from partnership rather than confrontation or mutual negl... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/michelle-bachelet/","name":"Michelle Bachelet"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/michelle-bachelet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/michelle-bachelet/"},"name":"Michelle Bachelet","jobTitle":null,"description":"Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights","url":"https://time.com/author/michelle-bachelet/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```