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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Maybelyn B. Paden

Navi Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: 10 Things To Know About the Former ICC Judge

Navi Pillay, the South African jurist and former International Criminal Court judge, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law (Credit: English: Dutch Ministry of Foreign AffairsNederlands: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work defending international law from apartheid-era South Africa to the United Nations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday, 9 October.

The 85-year-old South African jurist and former International Criminal Court judge was selected at a time when the committee says the global system of legal rules and institutions is under 'tremendous pressure' from resurgent power politics.

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