“A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time,” the Committee said.
Navi Pillay said, “I am deeply honored and grateful to have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes, as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice.”
The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth about 1.2 million USD, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.
