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2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay
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Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring war crimes and genocide are prosecuted, says the Nobel committee.
Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring war crimes and genocide are prosecuted, says the Nobel committee.
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Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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Navi Pillay named winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize for efforts to promote international law - live
The Nobel committee chair says the winner was ‘instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted’ You can watch along below, but I will bring you all the key lines here. Spoiler alert (not really). Continue reading...
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