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Sep 23, 1941 Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 82 years old
Lawyer, judge and human rights activist
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About Navi Pillay
- Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (Tamil: ??????? ??????; born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.
- A South African of Indian Tamil origin, she was the first non-white woman judge of the High Court of South Africa, and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- Her four-year term as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008 and was extended an additional two years in 2012.
- She was succeeded in September 2014 by Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad.
- In April 2015 Pillay became the 16th Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty.
