ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay é juíza do tribunal internacional de justiça das Nações Unidas e já defendeu Nelson Mandela. Fotografia: Australian Associated Press/Alamy Ver imagem em tela cheia Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay é juíza do tribunal internacional de justiça das Nações Unidas e já defendeu Nelson Mandela.

Fotografia: Australian Associated Press/Prêmio AlamyNobel da Paz A juíza do ICJ Navi Pillay ganha o Prêmio Nobel da Paz por promover o direito internacional O Comitê reconhece o trabalho da África do Sul que presidiu a comissão da ONU que concluiu que Israel era culpado de genocídio em Gaza.

Prefer the Guardian on GoogleThe Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.

The Norwegian Nobel committee said Pillay, who is serving as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has “shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence”.

Essa comissão concluiu no ano passado que o Estado de Israel era culpado de atos genocidas em Gaza “com a intenção específica de destruir os palestinos em Gaza”, e afirmou que o primeiro‑ministro do país, Benjamin Netanyahu, seu presidente, Isaac Herzog, e seu ex‑ministro da defesa, Yoav Gallant, haviam “incitado a comissão de genocídio”.

Israel refused to cooperate with the commission, arguing it was biased, and rejected its report as “scandalous”.

In its statement, the Nobel committee said Pillay, 85, had “contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law”.

The committee said it had not been able to locate Pillay before its announcement on Friday morning. She was attending a meeting of human rights lawyers and jurists in Nuremberg, Germany, at the site of postwar war crimes trials of Nazi leaders, and heard the news from colleagues.

Pillay está atualmente supervisionando um caso de genocídio contra Mianmar no ICJ.

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa, said: “Justice Pillay’s crowning as winner of the Nobel Prize allows us to celebrate the progressive contributions she has made to strengthen peace, uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally.”.

Yasmin Sooka, a human rights lawyer and commissioner on both South Africa and Sierra Leone’s truth and reconciliation commissions, said Pillay “follows in the footsteps of Chief Albert Luthuli and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, carrying forward South Africa’s proud tradition of linking peace with justice and human dignity”.

In 1998, the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda found Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former mayor of Taba, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.

O prêmio de paz concedido no ano passado ao líder da oposição venezuelana, María Corina Machado, atraiu ampla crítica devido às suas chamadas por intervenção militar dos EUA em seu país.

Machado heightened the controversy in January by handing her winner’s medal to Donald Trump. The prize committee insisted that the honour of being a Nobel laureate could not be transferred.

On Monday, Pillay joked that she could do the same: “If you clap a little bit more, I’m going to share this prize with Trump.”.