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The U.N. human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, says she will not seek a new four-year term after the current one that has been overshadowed by criticism of ...

Last week, Human Rights Watch relayed a statement from over 230 activist groups representing people from Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and other places in China calling on Bachelet to step down. After a brief news conference in China as her trip ended on May 28, Bachelet used Monday's speech to the rights council to provide new details about her conversations with authorities there. The World Health Organization has lamented that Pyongyang hasn't provided enough information about the outbreak there. But critics said she hasn't spoken out enough, and during the visit didn’t press authorities enough. Rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani confirmed that meant that Bachelet, a former president of Chile, would not be seeking a new term after the current one ends on Aug. 31. Her office repeatedly said she and staffers were working to create the right conditions for the trip, which ultimately took place last month.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights mandate, created in 1993, is four years and has only been renewed once, by South African Navy Pillay. The UN Secretary ...

The 70-year-old former Chilean president, who will wrap up her four-year mandate at the end of August, had until now remained mum about whether she would seek ...

On the rights situation in Russia, she said the arbitrary arrest of a large number of protesters there opposed to the invasion of Ukraine was “worrying”. In her speech, she said her office was working on an updated assessment of the human rights situation in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where there are widespread allegations that mostly Muslim Uyghur people have been unlawfully detained, mistreated and forced to work. Bachelet made a trip to China last month for which she was criticised by rights groups as well as some Western governments, including the United States, who said conditions Chinese authorities imposed on the visit did not enable a complete and independent assessment of the rights environment.

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who has come under stinging criticism for a recent trip to China, says she won't seek a new ...

"I can confirm that a Czech citizen has died in the Donetsk region of Ukraine," Jan Lipavsky told reporters June 11. Pulatov also said that separatists did not have a Buk missile system, at least not in his area of responsibility. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the major developments on Russia's invasion, how Kyiv is fighting back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction. Chancellor Scholz's visit is a strong signal that Berlin recognizes that we meet the criteria," said Kovacevski. That made the dollar more expensive to buy from the quoted price of 327,000 rial the prior day. Rajabov and Mazorov were reportedly associates of Imomnazar Imomnazarov, a former field commander who fought against the government in the 1990s Tajik civil war. “Remember how in Russia, in the beginning of May, they hoped to seize all of the [eastern Ukrainian region of] Donbas?” Zelenskiy said. While it makes up almost half of the country, its population is a mere 250,000. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the major developments on Russia's invasion, how Kyiv is fighting back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction. They are pressing in Syevyerodonetsk, severe fighting is ongoing there -- literally for every meter," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address, adding that Russia's military was trying to pour reserves into the Donbas. According to the group, at least 67 activists and journalists were detained on June 12, which is commemorated as Russia Day, of whom 43 individuals were detained after being identified as potential protesters. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the major developments on Russia's invasion, how Kyiv is fighting back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction.

Why it matters: The announcement comes amid blowback by genocide scholars and rights advocates criticizing Bachelet for her visit to China's Xinjiang region ...

Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will not testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Monday due to a "family emergency," the panel announced. The big picture: "As my term as High Commissioner draws to a close, this Council’s milestone fiftieth session will be the last which I brief," Bachelet said during opening remarks before the Human Rights Council on Monday. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on Monday that she won't seek a second term.

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks with reporters as she leaves federal court in New York. Photograph by Michael M. Santiago / Getty.

“I will make you this promise: if I’m halfway through my term as your congressperson and Alaska is still not a state, I will quit also.” “I woke up one morning and said to myself, ‘Sarah, it’s not fair that you’re working your fanny off as governor of a place that’s not even a state,’ ” she said. “I don’t see why quote-unquote Hawaii gets to be a state just because Barack Hussein Obama says it is.”

GENEVA (Reuters) -- The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, said on Monday that she would not seek a second term for personal reason.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, will not seek re-election for another term.

UN Secretary General Guterres paid tribute to Bachelet who “has been on the frontlines of the human rights struggle all her life. Several countries and a host of NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, had criticised Bachelet for failing to challenge Beijing for alleged abuses against UyghursExternal link and other minority groups during a trip to China last month. Bachelet made her announcement at the end of a speech to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Monday.

The Supreme Court justice-designate didn't mention politics during the speech to her daughter's graduating class.

Quoting White’s “The Once and Future King,” the judge said: “‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlin, ‘is to learn something. She advised them to intentionally make their own life decisions, to “choose their own adventures.” She warned the graduates that they would face pressures to conform to what others are doing or to what they think might be expected of them. Each year, the private school — located in a wealthy neighborhood of Northwest Washington — chooses a parent to deliver a speech to students. I do not believe in any of that,” she answered at the time. Jackson issued a sweeping defense of her involvement in the school, saying that it’s a private institution and that any parent who enrolls a child there does so willingly.