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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Navi Pillay is a South African, Harvard-educated lawyer and human rights activist who joined the case against apartheid in 1967.

She was the first non-white woman to open her own practice there. She ran a shelter for abused women, and founded Equality Now.

They arrested and tortured her husband in retaliation for her work.

In 1995, Mandela nominated her to the UN security council judgeship, where she oversaw the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

She decided the case that made rape a war crime, stating "From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send out a strong signal that rape is no longer a trophy of war."

She also served on the case against Ferdinand Nahimana, which charged media organizations for their role in "spreading hate propaganda that amounted to public incitement to commit genocide."

She's worked on issues of genocide for more than 30 years, and was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2008.

She's currently a judge on the Rohingya genocide case (Gambia v. Myanmar).

She has single-handedly shaped international law.

It'd be difficult to find someone more worthy.

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@GrandpaHarris65 Yes and makes you wonder who comes up with these rules.

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@GrandpaHarris65 We got your back!

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@misstessowen @WIRED Congratulations!

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Schmitt on Jack Smith: People can decide if that's the truth or not. I supposed the DOJ can ask him where he really was that night.

Charlie: The Hawkeye game.

Schmitt: That's what he says.

Charlie: Oh no, no, no. We can see in the audience he's in that section. I've seen him in the section that night.

Schmitt: For that night? Great...

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@gauravsabnis There is just too much of it. Also, T20 and test, 50 over one day are two different sports (imho)- may be differentiated attrition in one vs the other (or cannibalized).

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@GrandpaHarris65 Ah. So it was you guys!

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@PAHoyeck Now, that's a statement (line).

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@GrandpaHarris65 Lol. Something about apples not falling far from the tree?

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@GrandpaHarris65 Nosy neighbors!

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@PAHoyeck Well played.

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@gauravsabnis Atleast, the sartorial choice is good , almost poetic.

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@gauravsabnis Pepper jelly!

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@BarackObama @MichelleObama So sorry for your loss.

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@GrandpaHarris65 Now that is useful! I knew we followed you for a reason. Keep 'em coming!

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@kirti_sd Lol. I think we saw you in the next door jewelry shop buying gold too & you were having an animated discussion about the economy being so good.

[Makarand (मकरंद) (مکرند) @Makarand_S]

Well meaning people of Pune, I have a request. Please stop calling Ganpati Mandal officials as "activists".

Make no mistake, Vidyanand Bapat is an activist taking on established power centres embodied by the Mandals.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right.”

— Karl Popper