Bachelet: Empowering Women Country By Country
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Bachelet: Empowering Women Country By Country

April 7, 2011 1:24 pm (EST)

Bachelet: Empowering Women Country By Country
Explainer Video

Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women and former president of Chile, discusses the empowerment of women around the world with CFR’s Director of Studies, James Lindsay. Bachelet emphasizes the importance of contextualizing the support provided in each country, and the need to combine both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

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