How Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Sent a Message to the World – and Trump
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How Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize win sent a message to the world – and Trump
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law. As her colleagues in the human
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Friday she could not believe she had won the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know anything about it. Therefore, my question is: is it true?” Pillay said in front of attendees at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg.The International Criminal Court (ICTY), where Pillay has served as a judge, hailed the award as an important recognition of the role of international justice as th…
“I dedicate this award to all the people who have survived international crimes.” Navi Pillay spoke his first words as a Nobel Peace Prize winner from Noriberga, from that Hall where the hierarchs of the Nazi regime were judged 70 years ago. A coincidence with a strong symbolic value that she herself emphasized at a press conference: “It is possible that fate wanted me to be in this historic room, number 600, where the Nuremberg trials took plac…
Navi Pillay, 85 years old, has unbelievably welcomed the news of the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 while he was at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. Entering the room among the applause, the South African jurist, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former judge of the International Criminal Court, joked: "If I applauded a little more I could divide the prize with Trump. The Norwegian Committee rewarded her for her commitment to peace and in…
Her career in the service of human rights has not gone unnoticed. The 85-year-old South African judge Navanethem Pillay received the... on Friday.
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