Michelle Bachelet Conferred Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2024 (image:x.com/mbachelet)
New Delhi: Former President of Chile Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria, popularly known as Michelle Bachelet, was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. Bachelet is celebrated as one of the world’s most prominent voices for human rights, peace, and equality, The award was announced by the international jury of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, chaired by former Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon.
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Bachelet is constantly articulative of the gender equality and the rights of the most vulnerable sections of the population. Aside being a President, she is the founding Director of UN Women, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Her personal courage and example in standing for peace and the rights of marginalized people continue to inspire men and women around the world,” the announcement read.
Bachelet has endured imprisonment during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet; upon her release, she went into exile in Australia and later Germany. She later returned to Chile, and became Chile’s first female president, serving from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018.
Bachelet has been a staunch advocate for equality and has worked tirelessly to improve the cause of women and of LGBTQ rights. While helming the role of President or out of office, she talked about the denial of human rights in occupied Palestine and other places around the world. She is renowned globally for courageously standing up for progressive causes, peace, and human values, against all criticism.
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“The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2024 is awarded to Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet for the example and inspiration that she is to women and men around the world of steadfastly striving for peace, gender equality, human rights, democracy and development in difficult circumstances, and her contributions to India’s relations with Chile,” the statement read.
The International Jury of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development is pleased to announce the award of the Prize for 2024 to Her Excellency @mbachelet .
President Bachelet has served in various roles including as the Founding Director of UN Women, the UN… pic.twitter.com/p82SjeN4BZ
— Congress (@INCIndia) December 6, 2024
