‘Navanethem Pillay’ has been honoured with which award?

Bookers Award
Pulitzer Award
Oscar Award
The Legion of Honour

The correct answer is: The Legion of Honour.

Navanethem Pillay is a South African judge and politician who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. She was the first woman to hold this position.

Pillay was born in South Africa in 1941. She studied law at the University of Natal and the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked as a lawyer in South Africa before becoming a judge in 1995.

Pillay has been a strong advocate for human rights throughout her career. She has worked to promote human rights in South Africa, as well as in other countries around the world. She has also been a vocal critic of human rights abuses.

In 2008, Pillay was appointed as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In this role, she was responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world. She also worked to address human rights abuses in specific countries, such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Pillay has been honored with numerous awards for her work on human rights. In 2009, she was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. In 2014, she was awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest civilian award.

The Booker Prize is a British literary prize awarded annually for the best novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The Pulitzer Prize is an American award for outstanding journalism, literature, and musical composition. The Oscar Award, also known as the Academy Award, is an American award for artistic and technical merit in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy’s voting membership. The Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit. It was created by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 May 1802.