Echoing Prime Minister Modi’s recent remarks about Congress’s “changed DNA,” BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said that selecting Bachelet as the 37th recipient of the award reflects what he called Congress’s “anti-India mindset.”

BJP hits out at Congress for Indira Gandhi Peace Prize to ‘anti-India’ former Chilean PM Michelle Bachelet

Previous awardees include Muhammad Yunus, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former US President Jimmy Carter, and the last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.


Michelle Bachelet awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2024 | Who gives the award? It is not the Government of India

Michelle Bachelet, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday (August 25) that there is "tremendous pressure" over a long-delayed report on China's Xinjiang region.

UN rights chief admits 'tremendous pressure' over Xinjiang report, says not clear when it will be published

As of yesterday, imports from China's Xinjiang region were prohibited in the United States under new laws. Firms will have to certify that goods from the region are not made using forced labour under the laws.

Uyghur genocide: US prohibits imports from China's Xinjiang region

Over the course of the last several years, China has been highly criticized for its treatment of the Uighur minority Muslims. UNHRC Chief Michelle Bachelet's trip to Xinjiang was bound to raise some eyebrows. The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in a statement said that the conditions Beijing authorities imposed on the visit didn't enable a complete and independent assessment

Row over UNHRC Chief's China visit: Bachelet accused of 'Backing China'

UNHRC chief Michelle Bachelet concluded her six-day visit to the Asian nation. After her support to China, she was highly criticized by the West as Beijing is facing global backlash of alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims.

'China visit not an investigation,' UNHRC chief Michelle Bachelet backs dragon

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has slammed China's efforts to restrict and manipulate UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet's visit to Xinjiang. Expressing concerns about a lack of independent assessment of the human rights environment in China, Blinken said he was ''troubled by reports that residents of Xinjiang were warned not to complain or speak openly about conditions in the region, (and) that no insight was provided into the whereabouts of hundreds of missing Uyghurs and conditions for over a million individuals in detention.

US slams China's efforts to restrict and manipulate UN rights chief visit to Xinjiang

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet after meeting Chinese officials said her meetings in Xinjiang were "unsupervised" by authorities. Bachelet said the visit was "not an investigation" as she added that the virtual meeting with President Xi Jinping was a chance to "listen to each other".

Meetings in Xinjiang 'unsupervised', China visit 'not an investigation': UN rights chief

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet begins her 6-day visit to China starring fears that China will push its Xinjiang agenda during the visit.

UNHRC Chief Michelle Bachelet's visit to China draws criticism

As United Nations' Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet visits China, Uyghurs have urged her to avoid falling victim to a public relations stunt and ask hard questions in Xinjiang.

Uyghurs urge UN rights chief to ask hard questions in Xinjiang and not be misled by 'PR stunts'

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet begins a visit to China on Monday, the first trip by a holder of the office since 2005.

UN Human Rights chief begins historic 6-day visit to China

The United States has slammed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for failing to stand up for Xinjiang's Uyghur community. In what will be the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights trip there since 2005, Bachelet is going to visit the controversial Chinese region from May 23 to 28 at the invitation of Beijing.

US slams UN rights chief for failing to stand up for Xinjiang's Uyghur community

A Sri Lanka court Wednesday freed on bail the country's top detective after 10 months behind bars, in a case that attracted international condemnation of Colombo's human rights record.

Sri Lanka court frees top detective probing Rajapaksas

The UN rights chief voiced alarm Sunday at deadly clashes in the Colombian city of Cali, calling for an independent investigation and accountability for the violence.

UN rights chief urges independent probe into deaths in Colombia

UN human rights boss Michelle Bachelet was given a mandate on Tuesday to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka's long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers.

UN rights office gets mandate to document Sri Lanka war crimes

On Tuesday (2 March), the separatist group 'Sikhs for Justice' (SFJ) claimed to donate $10,000 (more than Rs 7.33 lakh) to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Today Tonight: 'Sikhs for Justice' group donates $10,000 to the United Nations

Indian govt has questioned the silence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Red Fort violence & the issue of terrorism even as the latter continues to rake Kashmir irking Delhi.

India questions UN High Commissioner's silence on terror, Red Fort violence

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is due to speak via video message Friday to a UN Human Rights Council debate on allegations of torture and other serious violations in her country.

Belarus opposition leader to address UN on abuse allegations

The UN rights chief has urged Russia to conduct a "thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation" into the alleged poisoning of Putin's critic Alexei Navalny.

UN urges Russia to conduct transparent investigation of Navalny's poisoning

The UN. human rights office voiced concern on Monday about more than a dozen countries that have declared states of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic where police have arrested or detained hundreds of thousands of people and killed others.

UN raises alarm about police brutality in lockdowns

Airstrikes by the Syrian government and its allies on schools, hospitals, markets, and bakeries have killed at least 103 civilians in the past 10 days, including 26 children, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Friday (July 26) read out by one of her spokesman. "These are civilian objects, and it seems highly unlikely, given the persistent pattern of such attacks, that they are all being hit by accident," OHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing in Geneva, adding that the rising toll had been met with "apparent international indifference." The government began its offensive against the rebel enclave in northwest Syria, the last area of active insurgent opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, at the end of April, saying it was responding to violations of a truce.

U.N. says Syria air strikes killed at least 100 civilians in past 10 days

A Guatemalan asylum seeker left some members of a US House panel visibly shaken on Wednesday with the story of her daughter's death, saying the toddler had contracted a deadly lung infection during 20-day detention near the US border with Mexico.

'World should know,' migrant tells US Congress of toddler's death

The UN human rights chief said Monday that she was "deeply shocked" by conditions under which migrants and refugees are held at US detention centres, following reports of severe overcrowding and disease-ridden cells.

United Nation rights chief 'shocked' by conditions at US migrant detention centres

Venezuela has freed 22 prisoners including the emblematic cases of judge Maria Afiuni and journalist Braulio Jatar, a senior UN official said on Friday, and an opposition lawmaker called for more releases.

Venezuela frees judge, journalist, 20 students: UN