Navi Pillay
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) was established in December 1993 with a mandate to promote and protect all human rights. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Navi Pillay of South Africa, High Commissioner for Human Rights on July 28, 2008. Prior to that, she served as a judge on the International Criminal Court. The following is excerpted from Commissioner Pillay’s August 22, 2011, address to the Human Rights Council Special Session on Human Rights in Syria. Allow me to recall that the Human Rights Council in its 16th Special Session on April…
