Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pillay, Navanethem
Parallel form(s) of name
- Navanethem Pillay
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Navanethem Naidoo
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1941-
History
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (née Naidoo; born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. A South African of Indian Tamil origin, Pillay was the first non-white woman judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.