Jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for work from apartheid to global justice

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Navi Pillay, 85, won the Nobel Peace Prize for a career spanning the defense of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa to judgeships at the Rwanda tribunal and the International Criminal Court. The Norwegian Nobel Committee credited her with helping make genocide and crimes against humanity punishable in practice and urged countries to defend judges and institutions now under attack. She also chaired the U.N. panel that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that its leaders incited it, an accusation Israel has strenuously denied.

Hours after the announcement, Washington extended sanctions from individual ICC judges and prosecutors to the entire court, restrictions that could disrupt the banking and software services it needs to pay staff and run cases. The court condemned the move and appealed to member states for help. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the committee had ‘lost its moral compass’, while the ICC's president called the prize an important recognition of international justice's role.

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Give a woman a peace prize for decades of holding power accountable, and watch a government respond by trying to choke off the bank accounts of the court she served. That's not subtle, it's a government answering an argument about justice by cutting off the lights. The timing did the editorializing better than any speech could have.

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