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22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Politics
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Former UN rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay — awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday — is a global rights defender who has also served on the International Criminal Court and was South Africa’s first non-white woman high court judge.
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who → award → Court
The 85-year-old built a formidable reputation during a decades-long career that took her from South African courts to the ICC and the International Tribunal for Rwanda.
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that → build → Rwanda
She gained global prominence for her outspoken condemnation of government repression of popular protests in the Arab world, including Libya and Syria.
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She → gain → Libya
Between 2021 and 2025, she chaired a commission of enquiry created by the UN Human Rights Council to probe the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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she → chair → conflict
The panel, which does not speak for the UN and has faced harsh Israeli criticism, found that “genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur”, Pillay told AFP in 2025.
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Pillay → speak → 2025
“The responsibility lies with the state of Israel,” she said.
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she → lie → Israel
Pillay is currently an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, working on a case deciding whether Myanmar’s crackdown on the Rohingya breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, with a ruling expected in the coming months.
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ruling → work → months
Born the daughter of a bus driver in South Africa’s east coast city of Durban in 1941 to a family of Tamil descent, Pillay has had a groundbreaking career.
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Pillay → bear → career
She grew up in a poor neighbourhood in the southeastern coastal city during white minority rule, and studied law at the University of Natal before attaining a Master’s and Doctorate from Harvard.
She became the first non-white woman to open a law firm in Durban where she carved out a reputation as a doughty defender of apartheid opponents.
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she → grow → opponents
In 1973, she won the right for political prisoners in the notorious Robben Island penal colony — where jailed anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was held at the time — to have access to lawyers.
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Mandela → win → lawyers
A year after Mandela became president in South Africa’s first democratic vote in 1994, she made legal history by becoming the first woman of colour to be appointed to the country’s high court.
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she → become → court
Soon after, the late liberation hero recommended her to serve on a United Nations tribunal trying Rwandan genocide suspects.
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hero → recommend → suspects
In 1998, she was among judges on the Rwanda tribunal that was the first to try rape as an act of genocide.
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that → try → genocide
Ten years later, Pillay was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a role she held until 2014.
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she → appoint → 2014
Her upbringing in an unjust apartheid society spurred her to fight discrimination everywhere and earned her the reputation of being the voice of victims around the world.
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upbringing → spur → world
“We put up with the worst insults and racial discrimination and abused and treated like dirt,” Pillay told AFP in an interview in 2023.
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Pillay → put → 2023
That could have made you “weak and cry” or “fight every step of the way”, she said.
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she → make → way
“So I always had a sense of confidence about who I am and how you confront any kind of discrimination.
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you → confront → discrimination
And that’s what I did in the UN.”
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I → ’ → UN
The rights defender married in 1965 lawyer Gaby Pillay, who was also a political prisoner she represented while he was tortured in detention during apartheid rule.
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he → marry → rule
The couple divorced and Gaby died in the late 1990s.
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Gaby → divorce → 1990s
They had two daughters.
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They → have → daughters
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