South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Al Jazeera's piece covers both the career the committee honored and the Gaza inquiry that makes the award contested.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, 85, for her work promoting peace and international law, saying she was instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted. The committee highlighted her role on the Rwanda tribunal in establishing that rape and sexual violence can constitute crimes against humanity and genocide. She was later UN human rights chief and chaired the UN commission of inquiry that concluded last year Israel was responsible for genocide in Gaza, a finding Israel rejects. She dedicated the award to survivors of international crimes.
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Navi Pillay
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South African jurist, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014, the first non-white woman judge of South Africa's High Court, and a judge at the ICC and president of the Rwanda tribunal.
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