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Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing international law
From apartheid-era legal practice to Rwanda’s landmark trials, the South African jurist’s career embodies the committee’s argument that peace needs accountability. At 85, she says her judicial work continues.
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- Navanethem “Navi” Pillay’s career has carried her from legal practice under apartheid in South Africa to international courts confronting genocide. On October 9, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded her the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” The choice honors a particular idea of peace: not simply the absence of fighting, but the possibility of holding people accountable for atrocities.
