Indian-origin 'Navi' Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

Stockholm: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. In awarding this year's #NobelPeacePrize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law - national and international - underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.

History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane. The judges - those who guard the thin red line between order and chaos - are therefore highly deserving of our praise. But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked, we need people of courage, vision and determination - qualities that 2026 peace laureate Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.

She joked that she might "share the prize" with US President Donald Trump if people kept applauding her.

Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion.

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