Navi Pillay awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced the winner of the 2026 Peace Prize. The award was awarded to Navi Pillay, a lawyer and figure in the field of human rights protection, a correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports.

Navi Pillay. Photo by nobelprize.org

The committee said the prize was awarded "for her efforts to promote peace and international law." The relevant information is published on the official website of the award.

N. Pillay is a native of South Africa. From 2008 to 2014, she served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has also worked in various United Nations entities at other times. The Nobel Committee in Oslo highlights her contribution as a key figure in strengthening the international legal system and order.

Between 1901 and 2025, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded 106 times. In 31 cases, organizations became laureates. The youngest recipient is Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who won the award in 2014 at the age of 17. The oldest laureate is British physicist and radiobiologist Joseph Rothblatt, who was 86 at the time of the award in 1995.