{"id":47910,"date":"2026-10-14T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47910"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:49:47","slug":"navi-pillay-urges-us-to-defend-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/navi-pillay-urges-us-to-defend-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Navi Pillay urges US to defend human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South African jurist Navi Pillay is calling for stronger protection of international justice, urging the United States (US) to return to defending human rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Speaking at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, she criticised US sanctions against the institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Her remarks come amid international celebrations over her Nobel Peace Prize, alongside criticism of the award from Israel and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Pillay received a rapturous welcome at the headquarters of the ICC in the Hague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">ICC indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first to criticise the decision after a United Nations Independent Inquiry earlier led by Pillay, determined in September 2025 that genocide was taking place in Gaza, while US President Donald Trump in a lengthy tirade on social media and in person, slammed the Nobel Committee for yet again overlooking him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47641,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47910","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Pillay is calling for stronger protection of international justice","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47913,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47910\/revisions\/47913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}