🇿🇦 Navi Pillay Nobel award coincides with new US sanctions on ICC

South African jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 9 October for promoting peace and international law, hours before the administration of US President Donald Trump announced institution-wide sanctions on the International Criminal Court. According to Africa Confidential, the measures target US dollar payments and accounts held by ICC staff, as well as cloud services and insurance policies, and include a six-month wind-down period for US business dealings with the court. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions were intended to defend US sovereignty.

Pillay, the first black female judge of the High Court of South Africa in 1995, served as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, an ICC judge from 2003 to 2008, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. European Union member states said they would defend the court against US sanctions.

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