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| UN Human rights high commissioner giving a lecture at Maldives Parliament |
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who is constantly
clashing with Sri Lanka over human rights issues, has arrive to
Maldives on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 ( Today ). This is among her week long visit to the Asia continent. Ms Pillay will be in the Maldives until Thursday. She has currently met with President Mr. Mohamed Nasheed, senior ministers, political party leaders, the
judiciary, Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) and civil
society organizations of Maldives. She has visited the parliament of Maldives and had given a public lecture on the subject of the need for a
South Asian regional human rights body. Pillay's visit is the first
such visit to the Maldives by a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the recent history of Maldives. Navanethem "Navi" Pillay was born 23
September 1941 and is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A
South African she was the first non
white woman on the High Court of South Africa, and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and
President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Her four-year term
as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008. Pillay was
born in 1941 in a poor neighborhood of Durban, South Africa. She is of Tamil
descent and her father was a bus driver. She married Gaby Pillay, a lawyer, in
January 1965. Supported by
her local Indian community with donations, she graduated from the University of
Natal with a BA in 1963 and an LLB in 1965. She later attended Harvard Law
School, obtaining an LLM in 1982 and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree in
1988. Pillay is the first South African to obtain a doctorate in law from
Harvard Law School
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