Nobel Peace Prize 2026 goes to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Below is all the news and views, previews and reviews surrounding the award of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. South African human rights lawyer Navanethem "Navi" Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Born in 1941 into an Indian-origin family in Durban, Pillay grew up under apartheid and became one of South Africa's first women of Indian descent to practice law. She defended anti-apartheid activists and fought against discriminatory prison conditions. After apartheid, she became a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish landmark legal precedents recognizing rape as an act of genocide.