19659001 South African judge Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting peace and worldwide law, from opposing apartheid to serving on global courts. By Reuters
19659004 9 Oct 2026 Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay,
- has actually won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for’
- her efforts to promote peace and worldwide law ‘. (Photo: EPA/ Salvatore di Nolfi) 19659007 19459206
19459206 19459206 19659008 19659009 19659010 Navi Pillay, a previous International Criminal Court(ICC)judge who supervised a United Nations( UN)report that concluded that Israel dedicated genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 9 October 2026,”for her efforts to promote peace and global law”. 19659011 This year’s Nobel Peace Prize highlighted the significance of keeping an organised global order, the committee stated in its citation. 19659012 “The system of global law is under incredible pressure, and its organizations are under attack,” it stated. “We see a shift towards power politics at the cost of legal structures and worldwide regard for law and justice. Whenever may surpass right, it weakens stability, trust and tranquil coexistence.”
Previous UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. The reward, worth almost R20-million, will be provided in Oslo on 10 December. (Photo: EPA/ Salvatore di Nolfi ) 19659014 Born in Durban to a household of Indian Tamil origin, Pillay, 85, has actually been a judge on a number of worldwide courts, consisting of the ICC and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 19659015 She was likewise chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory that concluded in 2015 that Israel had actually devoted genocide in Gaza. Israel dismissed the report as “outrageous”. 19659016 She has actually likewise functioned as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 1967 she ended up being the very first lady to begin a law practice in Natal and the very first lady of colour to serve on South Africa’s high court.
Find out more SA’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Judge Navi Pillay on Gaza, power and worldwide justice October 13, 2025 19659019 19659020 Pillay held states and nationwide leaders liable and brought intend to victims of violence and dispute, and showed a company ethical compass in her long profession, stated the committee. “A typical thread ranges from her early work protecting Nelson Mandela and others who withstood apartheid to her service as a judge in a few of the essential worldwide lawsuit of our time,” stated the citation. The Hague-based ICC has actually been the target of an intensifying project by United States President Donald Trump 19459185, who last month prompted nations to leave it. Washington has actually currently enforced targeted sanctions on a number of district attorneys and judges at the court and, according to sources, is thinking about larger sanctions in retaliation for the targeting of Israeli leaders. 1945918019459214 The Chairperson of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, with a photo of Navanethem’ Navi’Pillay who won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, on 9 October 2026. (Photo: Javad Parsa/ NTB by means of AFP) The committee was not straight criticising Trump by rewarding Pillay, according to Haakon Gjerloew, acting director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. 19659025″I believe it’s normally rather a promo of a worldwide legal world order. Obviously, he may respond to somebody who has actually belonged to the ICC, however it’s not a direct attack on Trump,” Gjerloew stated. 19659026 The peace reward is the 5th Nobel granted today, after literature , chemistry , physics 19459185 and medication Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025 19459185 The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12 million Swedish crowns, or simply under R20 million, is because of exist in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who established the awards 19459185 in his 1895 will. 19459233 DM 19659028 Radical News 19659029Politics 19659030Nobel Peace Prize 19659031Navi Pillay 19659032Oslo 19659033South African 19659034ICC 19659035Gaza 19659036 Human Rights 19659037 International law 19659038
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