Navi Pillay chaired a UN commission that concluded Israel was conducting a genocide in Gaza. Photo: Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS

Navi Pillay knows intimately what apartheid looks and feels like.

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As a defence lawyer in the 1960s in segregated South Africa, the now-renowned legal expert worked for activists exposing torture and helped establish rights for prisoners on Robben Island.

The notorious jail is synonymous with Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned there for nearly two decades.

She rose to become the first non-white woman on the country's high court and the first non-white woman

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