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Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Forged Her Career Under Apartheid

Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.

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Navi Pillay, in Nuremberg, Germany on Friday.
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Israel Denounces the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay

Ms. Pillay, a human rights lawyer, was drawn into the international spotlight last year as chair of a commission that found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

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Palestinians waiting for food distribution in Gaza City last year.
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Navi Pillay is known for her work in conflict zones across the world.

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Navi Pillay received the news that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday while atttending an annual conference of human rights lawyers and judges in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Nobel Peace Prize Choice Amounts to Implicit Rebuke of Trump

The Trump administration has repeatedly attacked the international legal order and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where the Peace Prize winner, Navi Pillay, served as a judge.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague has come under particular attack by the Trump administration.
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In South Africa, Pillay forged a career fighting apartheid.

Navanethem Pillay

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Navi Pillay, right, with Edwin Cameron, left, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, center, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2013.
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Nobel Prize Winners Don’t Get a Heads-Up

Navi Pillay wasn’t the first Nobel laureate that the prize committees have struggled to reach. Many weren’t even awake when the news broke.

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The winners of the Nobel Prizes remain a secret, even to the winners themselves until shortly before the public announcement.
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Navi Pillay, a South African Human Rights Lawyer, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

A U.N. commission led by Ms. Pillay that investigated the war in Gaza found last year that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians.

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Navi Pillay was recognized “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
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