Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, an 85-year-old South African human rights advocate and judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored her for promoting peace and international law, particularly amid pressures from the Trump administration against the ICC following its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the committee, noted that Pillay's recognition sends a message to those seeking to undermine global justice systems.
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Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a former UN human rights chief and judge on the International Court of Justice, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on October 9, 2026. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored her for promoting peace and international law at a time when the global legal system is under attack. Pillay, born in South Africa, was recognized for her work defending Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists, as well as her service in key international court cases.
The committee noted that this decision came amid rising conflicts and political attacks on institutions of international law. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize announcement followed previous awards to laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature. The prize is often considered the most prestigious honor globally, with Pillay becoming one of its distinguished recipients.
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded Friday to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a South African human rights champion and judge on the International Criminal Court.
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The Nobel Committee said awarding the prestigious prize to someone on the ICC, which has faced huge pressure from the Trump administration, was a message to those who seek to undermine international justice.
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The South African-born former United Nations human rights chief, who is 85 years old, was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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"This is definitely a message to those who are undermining the international system and institutions," Frydnes said.
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The ICC has come under fire from the Trump administration over the last year, with the U.S. imposing sanctions against the U.N. court after it in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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President Trump accused the court of "illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel."
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against its staff and said they were intended to "harm (the Court's) independent and impartial judicial work.
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"Frydnes said the committee had been unable to reach Pillay on Friday to tell her she had been awarded the prize, adding from the podium that if she was watching and saw a call coming in from a Norwegian phone number, to "please pick up."
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The award is often considered the most prestigious honor on the planet.
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This year marks the 125th anniversary of the peace prize.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee had received nominations this year for 287 candidates for this year's prize, and just over a quarter of them were organizations.
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Last year, Venezuelan opposition leader
the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman "who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness."Machado gave President Trump, who has long said he deserves the prize, her Nobel medal shortly after the United States ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.
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But it was largely a symbolic gesture: The Nobel Committee has said the honor itself cannot be transferred.
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Nominations can be made by a select group of people and organizations, including heads of state or politicians serving at a national level, university professors, directors of foreign policy institutes, past Nobel Prize recipients and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee itself.
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Four of this year's Nobels were announced earlier this week.
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The Nobel for medicine went to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
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The physics award recognized a scientist's efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos.
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The chemistry prize recognized two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.
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Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the literature prize Thursday for "bold and inventive" works that fuse the classical and the modern and blur the boundaries of poetry and prose.
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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday.
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Education activist Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate; she won at 17 in 2014.
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The United States is the most-credited country, with 24 awards naming U.S. institutions or individuals, ahead of the United Kingdom (13) and Switzerland (11).
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No laureate listed as American has won since then-President Barack Obama was awarded in 2009.
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The prize has gone unawarded on 19 occasions, most of them during the world wars.
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In 1948, the year Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, no prize was awarded; he had been nominated 12 times and never won.
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