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The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a judge and human rights lawyer, at a time the committee said international law faces “tremendous pressure” and its institutions are “under attack.”
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Who Is She?
- Aged 85
- Born into an Indian Tamil family in Durban, South Africa
- Founded her own law firm in 1967
- Earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1988
- Defended Nelson Mandela and others opposing apartheid
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- 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: Navi Pillay, aged 85; born in Durban, South Africa, to an Indian Tamil family
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008-2014
- Judge at the ICTR and currently at the ICJ, hearing the genocide case against Myanmar
- Chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Her work shaped the recognition of rape and sexual violence as acts of genocide
- The Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel awarded in Oslo, Norway, by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament; the others are awarded in Stockholm
- The Myanmar genocide case was brought by The Gambia over the Rohingya
- 2026 Nobels: Medicine — optogenetics; Physics — neutrino detection at IceCube; Chemistry — asymmetric catalysis; Literature — Anne Carson
- Indian Peace Nobel laureates: Mother Teresa (1979) and Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
