Navantham "Navi" Pillai, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Navantham "Navi" Pillai, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the prize will be awarded to Pili for his "efforts to promote international peace and justice".

Originally from Durban, South Africa, Navi Pillai presided over the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwandan Genocide from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

In recent years he has also been a member of the "Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories"; The committee established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021.