2026 Nobel Peace Prize: Who is Navanethem “Navi” Pillay?

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: Who is Navanethem “Navi” Pillay? © REUTERS 00:53 Issued on: 09/10/2026 - 17:47 The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on Friday, October 9, 2026. The 85-year-old South Africa-born served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Keywords for this article