Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this is also a universal phenomenon. There's also disenchantment with politics in Europe.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.