Speech on Human Rights and Awards

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 it, so my question is, is it true?

It's not April Fools'.

Yeah.

Did you-

Navi.

-know anything?

No, they called me... Christophe called me up now to tell me,

and

I said, "It must be a joke."

Oh, it's on the BBC.

Then it must be, it must be true.

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

Because firstly, firstly, 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'm saying,

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 impass-- 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.