Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay was there, advocating for women and political detainees.
spent 21 formative years in and around your home town of Durban honing some of the techniques, including vast, peaceful demonstrations that would become crucial to his success in helping end British colonialism in India. How is he remembered? He wasn’t a pacifist. He was very strategic. Here in Natal, my province, he led Indian women and men [in a mass demonstration in 1913]. They walked right up from Natal to the Transvaal border, and they were all arrested.
One of my clients had been badly beaten. I talked to her on television, which was new to us in 1971 or so, and this was the first case of wife abuse highlighted in my office and shown on TV. The media called me the next day and they said that their switchboards were inundated with calls from the public, who were so shocked, which shows what a big issue that was.
Why had no one ever challenged the Terrorism Act before? Because under apartheid, it said that no court had jurisdiction to order the release of a person or to inquire about the whys and wherefores of detention. I was the first one to do so because my husband was in detention [not on Robben Island], and I knew I couldn’t apply for his release. So I filed a plea for immunity to stop the police from using torture on him.
The African National Congress support group [at the U.N.] asked for two things: sanctions against South Africa and a convention against torture, and that’s how we have a convention against torture.: Turning to the U.N.
But the ICC is investigating Afghanistan, Colombia and others. It goes wherever they have evidence that a crime has been committed.
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