Navi Pillay

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Navanetham Pillay (born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the high commissioner for human rights of the United Nations from 2008 to 2014. Pillay was the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is to be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Pillay was born and raised in Durban, to a family of Indian Tamil origin, where she later attended the University of Natal, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1963 and her Bachelor of Laws in 1965. After university, Pillay pursued a career as an attorney, joining the legal defence against apartheid. In 1967, Pillay started her own law firm and became the first woman to do so in her home province of Natal. In 1981, Pillay attended Harvard University and earned her Master of Law. In 1988, she completed her thesis and graduated...

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