Chilean Michelle Baclehet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced this Monday ( ) who will not run for a second term and said goodbye of the position he started to exercise in 1280. “This historic session will be my last”, he said, in a speech at the UN Human Rights Council.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Portuguese António Guterres, is in charge of proposing a new name for the position, which will be submitted to the UN General Assembly.
The mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a post created in 1993, lasts for four years and was only renewed in one only occasion, with the permanence of the South African Navy Pillay.
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