What a lovely choice for the Nobel Peace Prize! Little Norway’s Nobel Committee sends a message to the big and mighty: nobody is above the law.
Navi Pillay, a slight woman from South Africa, has shown the strength to challenge power and stand beside its victims. Now she takes centre stage, alongside the international law so many powerful leaders have spent recent years trying to bury.
There is something delicious about this choice. While the mighty parade their armies, threats, and egos, the spotlight falls on a woman whose authority rests on courage, integrity, and justice.
Congratulations to Navi Pillay—and to the Norwegian Nobel Committee for reminding the world that might does not make right.
Excellent news and well deserved.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteNorway’s Nobel Committee honours a woman who has spent her life insisting that power must answer to the law. And, hours later, Washington imposes sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. It is morally bankrupt to treat judges as a threat while bringing Putin back in from the cold. Sanctions for those investigating war crimes; commercial opportunities for those who commit them. The energy argument makes this even more bankrupt. Having created an energy crisis, Washington turns to Putin to contain the political fallout ahead of an election. If powerful governments can intimidate courts whenever investigations become inconvenient, what remains for the victims? And what protects smaller countries when their larger neighbours decide that might is right?
Congratulations to Nobel Committee for their wise decision to award the Peace Prize to Navi Pillai. Frankly, why shd we waste time discussing avengeful actions? Let us rejoice that the “good” has won and justice has been restored.🌻🌻
ReplyDeleteSree, Good has been honoured, but it has not won. There is a world of difference.
DeleteA Nobel Prize does not enforce an arrest warrant, protect a witness or bring a victim justice. The sanctions against the ICC show that accountability is being resisted. That should not be dismissed.
Telling victims that “justice has been restored” because of a courageous judge is wrong.