South Africa: Who Is Navi Pillay, the South African Judge Who Won the Nobel Prize? We Asked Her Biographer
Whether defending political prisoners in South Africa, transforming international criminal law by tackling rape in Rwanda, or denouncing the genocide in Gaza, she has been a fearless trailblazer in the area of human rights since the 1960s.
Pillay's interventions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda changed international human rights law forever.
She then moved to the International Criminal Court in Hague, after which, in 2008, she was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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