Character Catalog

Social protection programme targeting Chile's poorest families, combining financial aid, social support and access to public services. Considered a model for poverty reduction in Latin America.

By appointing a cabinet with exactly as many women as men, Bachelet set a historic global milestone in political equality, inspiring many countries.

During her first term, Bachelet institutionalised environmental policy by creating a dedicated ministry, restructuring the country's ecological governance.

Major reform aimed at eliminating tuition fees at Chilean public universities, responding to the demands of the student movement. It transformed access to higher education in Chile.

Official document from the UN High Commissioner's Office concluding that the treatment inflicted on the Uyghurs could constitute crimes against humanity — a historic and controversial report published at the end of her mandate.

As the first director of UN Women, Bachelet structured this new UN institution and gave it decisive international visibility for women's rights.

"We have the extraordinary opportunity to build together an exemplary democracy, a more just, more united society, with greater equality between men and women."

Michelle Bachelet testified about her detention at Villa Grimaldi in January–February 1975, describing the conditions of internment and the violence suffered by political prisoners under the dictatorship.

"Gender equality is not only a fundamental right, it is the necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world."

Under Bachelet's leadership, the High Commissioner's Office publicly denounced human rights violations in Venezuela, China (Xinjiang), and Ethiopia, engaging the institution's international credibility.

The seat of the Chilean presidency, La Moneda is the place where Bachelet served her two presidential terms. It is also the palace bombed during the 1973 coup against Allende — a historically charged location for her.

A detention and torture center run by the DINA (Pinochet's secret police) where Bachelet and her mother were imprisoned in 1975. Today it has been transformed into a peace park and memory museum.

It was from this office that Bachelet led the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality from 2010 to 2013, promoting women's rights on a global scale.

Headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, where Bachelet served from 2018 to 2022, publishing critical reports on states such as China, Russia, and Venezuela.

Bachelet lived in exile in the GDR, where she studied German and sciences — an experience that shaped her international outlook and her ability to navigate between different cultures and political systems.

Bachelet is first and foremost a pediatric physician. The stethoscope symbolizes her commitment as a caregiver serving the most vulnerable, a vocation that has shaped her entire political career in favor of social rights.

Trained at the National School of Military Health, Bachelet wore the uniform within an institution once associated with the oppression of her own family. This paradox symbolizes her capacity to reconcile opposites in post-dictatorship Chile.

During her two terms, Bachelet worked on constitutional reform projects to modernize the Constitution inherited from Pinochet (1980). The annotated copy represents the struggle for a more inclusive democracy.

Present at all her inaugurations, the red, white, and blue starred flag embodies Chile's democratic reconquest after the dictatorship — a powerful symbol for a woman whose father died for refusing to betray the Republic.

As High Commissioner (2018-2022), Bachelet produced reports on situations of serious violations around the world. These official documents have become major diplomatic tools for the protection of human rights.

A symbol of contemporary multilateral diplomacy, the phone is the daily negotiation tool of a leader who has managed complex international crises from the La Moneda palace to the United Nations in Geneva.