Navi Pillay Reacts to Prize and Discusses Gaza and Human Rights

Bravo!

Bravo!

A speech. So, thank you very much. Thank you very much.

If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with, uh, Trump.

So, no, I don't know about this, so my question is, is it true?

It's not April Fool's. Yeah. Did you know about the teaching?

No, they called me... Christoph called me up now to tell me, and I said, "It must be a joke."

Only one BBC. Then it must be, it must be true.

No, no, it's everywhere. It's on the BBC. It's everywhere.

Ah. Because firstly, firstly, in-- at this venue, your applause means a great deal to me. Really.

You know, you don't want to receive an award prize or anything unless the public agrees that you deserve this.

So that-that's how I appreciate your applause today. Thank you so much.

But being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this thing.

So what I mean to say, I think it's very appropriate that I'm with friends and colleagues, all of whom support human rights. Um, the last thing I did is the delivery of the report on Gaza, naming what's happening there as genocide.

Yeah. Bravo.

Thank you. Yeah. So, so one of the main reactions to that report is, uh, paying tribute to me for my courage, and you can imagine how surprised I was.

Why would you need courage to speak the truth? You interpret the law, you look at all the facts.

Uh, so it's an impash-- uh, you know, impartial decision-making.

Um, so right now, I'm still involved as ad hoc judge in the case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar.

So everybody says, "When are you gonna stop?

When are you gonna stop?" I just turned eighty-five last, last month here. Uh, I can't s-- obviously stop my work in support of the Nuremberg Principles Academy because of the people we meet here.

But really, thank you so much. You know, I hope this is not a joke then.

I'm so- Thank you. Thank you. Bravo! Bravo!