Navi Pillay, the newly announced Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, has been embroiled in further scandals: First, she refused to attend the 2010 Nobel Prize award ceremony for Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, nor did she send anyone to represent her; at the time, she was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Second, why did she refuse? Because she wanted to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party. Her UN staff...
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Navi Pillay, the newly announced Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, has been embroiled in further scandals: First, she refused to attend the 2010 Nobel Prize award ceremony for Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, nor did she send anyone to represent her; at the time, she was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Second, why did she refuse? Because she wanted to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party. Her UN staff...