Key facts
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay urged the US to resume its role as a defender of human rights.
- Pillay criticized President Trump's 'negative and cruel' attacks on the International Criminal Court.
- Pillay suggested US sanctions against the ICC, announced after her Nobel Prize win, were not coincidental.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the ICC a 'rogue court' and stated it would not be allowed to prosecute Americans.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay has called on the United States to reassert its leadership in defending human rights globally, while also criticizing President Donald Trump's "negative and cruel" attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Pillay, who is also a judge at the International Court of Justice, stated in an interview that the US should return to its "serious role as a leader, playing a liberatory role for the rest of the world." She suggested that the timing of US sanctions against the ICC, announced shortly after her Nobel Prize win, was not a coincidence, indicating that plans to target international criminal justice had been developing.