Navi Pillay's 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Navi Pillay, the South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades of work on human rights and international law. She previously served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court, and later led a UN commission that found Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. The award has drawn broad international praise but also notable dissent, with Israel a prominent critic and a watchdog group raising antisemitism and ethics concerns about Pillay.