Dr Pillay grew up in apartheid-era South Africa. Of Indian descent, she experienced the full brunt of racism, poverty, and exclusion. In her youth she became determined to fight injustice and dedicated herself to defending human rights abuses in South Africa and around the world. The pinnacle of her thirty-year career as a lawyer and judge came in , when she was appointed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a position she held until It was a job, she said, that demanded she work for no less than the full protection of all human rights for all individuals — civil and political rights, economic and social rights — especially for neglected groups, such as women, minorities, migrants, indigenous people, those with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
After earning her law degree, Pillay spent the next twenty-eight years defending anti-apartheid activists and exposing the use of torture and the deplorable treatment of prisoners.
China called on nations and various inter-governmental bodies to boycott the ceremony. Judge Pillay co-founded Equality Now, an international women's rights organization, and has been involved with other organizations working on issues relating to children, detainees, victims of torture and of domestic violence, and a range of economic, social and cultural rights. Defence attorney for many anti-apartheid activists.
Navanethem Pillay. Accessed on 31 July Tufts Now. Navanethem Navi Pillay online. Accessed on 31 July Winentrance. Biography of Navanethem Pillay online. Accessed on 31 July From to , she was, as the first and then only woman, judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, whose Presidency she held for four years.
In , after the end of Apartheid, she worked at the Supreme Court of South Africa as a limited-term judge. Pillay has championed many human rights issues with which she herself had direct experience, having grown up under the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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