Judge Navi Pillay, the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize winner, is speaking now at the Press Club. Judge Pillay is Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which determined that the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza constitute acts of genocide. Judge Pillay is speaking about her role in that commission, and women and security.
Judge Pillay noted that the United Nations and its member states have the responsibility to ensure that international law is fully respected and that those who violate it must be held to account. No one can say they did not know was happening in Gaza. Judge Pillay notes that the ceasefire agreement announced by the United States has nothing to say about international law or self-determination.
For more from Judge Pillay, you can listen to a recent episode of After America. Or, if you’re in Sydney, you can hear her speak this week.
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The Albanese government was named six times in the draft report to the UN, I believe, as participating in the genocide through the provision of weapons.
Albanese was full of support for Trump's "peace plan", despite it obviously contravening international law and self-determination, and despite Israel's record on breaking ceasefires and Trump's record on keeping his word. The Albanese government talks of "rule of law" and support for International law, yet, they have significantly undermined International law with its stance on this genocide and its lack of support for the ICJ in the face of US sanctions against the ICJ and its prosecutors.
Labor have Palestinian blood on their hands.