Publicly, the lobbying against Navi Pillay began with an article in the pro-Israeli German tabloid Bild, Barbara Crossette reports.It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and inter
Publicly, the lobbying against Navi Pillay began with an article in the pro-Israeli German tabloid Bild, Barbara Crossette reports.
By Barbara Crossette
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It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Meda
Barbara Crossette is The Nation’s United Nations correspondent. A former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, she is the author of several books