Bachelet won’t seek 2nd term as UN human rights chief

By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, says she will not seek a new four-year term after the current one that has been overshadowed by criticism of her response to China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang. Bachelet, in her opening address to the latest session of the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council, said that her comments to the session “will be the last which I brief” the 47-member-state body. Rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani confirmed that meant that Bachelet, a former president of Chile, would not be seeking a second four-year term when the current one ends on Aug. 31.