As Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize, US takes unprecedented action to cripple the court she served on
When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law.
As her colleagues in the human rights community applauded and congratulated the former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge on her win, her first reaction was simply: “Is it true? I thought it must be a joke.”
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“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with (US President Donald) Trump,” she quipped, a reference to how last year’s winner gave her medal to the US president, before adding “it’s very appropriate that I’m with friends, colleagues, all of whom support human rights.”
Hours after Pillay’s win, the Trump administration announced fresh sanctions on the ICC, the body established in 2002 to prosecute individuals accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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