Elocuente y firme, Navanethem Navi Pillay, recién galardonada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz, mantiene a sus 85 años la pasión y la entereza necesarias para seguir adelante con la labor que ha vertebrado su vida: la defensa de los derechos humanos. Nacida en Sudáfrica, creció bajo el régimen de apartheid y se hizo jurista porque quería saber “cuáles son los derechos de las personas”. El Comité noruego del Nobel ha destacado sus esfuerzos para promover el derecho internacional en un momento en que el Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI), pero también el Tribunal Internacional de Justicia de la ONU (TIJ), afrontan ataques por parte de Estados Unidos y su principal aliado, Israel.

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The landscape of asphalt and concrete that defines La Paz can give way, within just a few miles, to hot, dense forests clinging to the mountainsides. The steep, unforgiving streets north of Bolivia’s administrative capital are replaced by thick vegetation and winding rivers that descend more than 5,000 meters toward the Amazon.

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The coronavirus arrived in Bolivia amid uncertainty and panic that gave rise to racism. There are reports in which Indigenous people say they were denied medical care because healthcare workers were afraid of becoming infected. They were labeled sources of contagion for failing to comply with lockdown measures, since their livelihoods depended on in-person activities. Yet during the same period, another narrative emerged within Indigenous communities: that the Andean body was resistant to the virus because of the hardiness developed from living at high altitudes.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The award recognizes “a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order,” the committee stated. The laureate, the committee continued, “has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.”

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