Navi Pillay is our new moment of hope

Mark Carney should offer congratulate Navi Pillay on behalf of Canada, and then seize this moment to lead this country in a new middle-power campaign to save and extend international law through the full application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Navi Pillay, left, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 9. Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, joined G7 countries to affirm its 'unwavering support' for the International Criminal Court last week when it was attacked by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But Doug Roche says Carney should have also publicly congratulated Pillay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

October 15, 2026

EDMONTON—A sunflower burst open in the jungle of international affairs on Oct. 9 when Navi Pillay—the gritty 85-year-old South African jurist who chaired a United Nations commission that found Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza—was awarded the N...

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