{"id":2392,"date":"2026-10-09T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:03:44","slug":"south-africas-navanethem-navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South African judge Navanethem \u201cNavi\u201d Pillay, 85, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday \u201cfor her efforts to promote peace and international law\u201d, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pillay \u200bheld states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to \u200bvictims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral \u2060compass in her long career, the committee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA common thread runs \u200bfrom her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood \u200bup against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n

Navi Pillay was chair of \u200bthe United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory \u200bthat concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Israel dismissed the \u200creport \u2060as \u201cscandalous\u201d.<\/p>\n

The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature<\/a>, chemistry<\/a>, physics<\/a> and medicine<\/a>. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2 million, is due to be \u200bpresented in Oslo \u200bon December \u206010, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards, in his 1895 will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South African judge Navanethem \u201cNavi\u201d Pillay, 85, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday \u201cfor her efforts to promote peace and international law\u201d, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pillay \u200bheld states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to \u200bvictims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral \u2060compass in her long career, the committee said. \u201cA common thread runs \u200bfrom her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood \u200bup against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}