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Former UN Commissioner Navi Pillay wins 2025 Sydney Peace Prize
Navi Pillay, an international lawyer and human rights advocate who co-authored a report for the UN this year accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has won the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize.
The former United Nations high commissioner for human rights grew up in apartheid South Africa, where she was the first non-white female judge.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Pillay is an “icon of justice”.
“Knowing you will fight injustice elsewhere is reassuring,” she added.
Rights group demands Gaza war crimes accountability as ceasefire holds
Civil Rights Defenders is calling on the international community to pursue justice for alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s two-year assault on Gaza.
The Stockholm-based organisation said the US-brokered truce marks only the beginning of a necessary accountability process for Palestinians and Israelis, warning impunity cannot be allowed to prevail.
Civil Rights Defenders condemned US sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling the move an attempt to obstruct justice. The organisation outlined necessary steps, including supporting ICC investigations, ensuring reparations for survivors, and allowing displaced Palestinians to return home.
‘For Palestinians ‘peace’ is a neverending bluff’: UN expert
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory has condemned Israel’s continued deadly attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.
“In the wasteland of rubble in Gaza, Israel keeps killing Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese wrote in a social media post.
She noted that, to justify its attacks despite the Gaza ceasefire, the Israeli government is using the “baffling excuse” that Palestinians have crossed the so-called “yellow line” where Israeli forces are stationed in the enclave.
“For Palestinians ‘peace’ is a neverending bluff,” she wrote.
As we’ve been reporting, more than 240 Palestinians have been killed in the Strip since the ceasefire came into effect last month, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
