(Navi Pillay. Picture by Peoples Gazette Nigeria)
Previous UN person rights chief and International Court of Justice judge Navi Pillay has actually won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee applauded her for promoting peace and worldwide law.
Pillay is 85 and from South Africa.
Her work has actually consisted of cases on human rights abuses in Rwanda, Myanmar and Gaza.
She started protecting anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.
She is the nation’s 5th Peace Prize winner, after Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, to name a few.
The committee chair, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, stated her work assisted make certain war criminal offenses, criminal activities versus humankind and genocide are prosecuted.
He stated global law is now a need, not simply an assistance for peace.
The committee might not inform Pillay beforehand.
When she heard the news, she stated “it must be a joke.”
She likewise joked that she may share the reward with United States President Donald Trump.
Pillay matured in Durban throughout apartheid.
She ended up being the very first lady to open a law practice in Natal Province in 1967, and later on the very first non-white lady designated to South Africa’s high court.
She served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, consisting of 4 years as its president.
From 2021 to 2025 she chaired a UN query into the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
That commission concluded Israel had actually dedicated genocidal acts in Gaza.
Israel turned down the findings. Its Foreign Ministry called the award a “grotesque weaponisation” of the reward.
Pillay is now a judge at the International Court of Justice in a case where The Gambia implicates Myanmar of genocide versus the Rohingya. Myanmar rejects the charge.
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