Norwegian Nobel Committee

This year's laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navatanem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass-

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A former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the twenty twenty-six Nobel Peace Prize.

Navi Pillay dedicated her award to survivors of international crimes, as well as to defenders of international justice.

Pillay is a former judge of the International Criminal Court, against which the Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions just hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Pillay with the prestigious prize.

Today they gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person.

Jaran Watne Fridnes, presidente del Comité Noruego del Nobel, destacó que existe un hilo conductor com-- que va desde su trabajo inicial en defensa de Nelson Mandela y de otras personas que se opusieron al apartheid hasta su labor como jueza en algunos de los casos internacionales clave de nuestro tiempo.

J. Watne Fridnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, stressed that there is a common thread that runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who opposed apartheid to her work as a judge in some of the key international cases of our time.

Jaran Watne Fridnes, presidente del Comité Noruego del Nobel, destacó que existe un hilo conductor com-- que va desde su trabajo inicial en defensa de Nelson Mandela y de otras personas que se opusieron al apartheid hasta su labor como jueza en algunos de los casos internacionales clave de nuestro tiempo.

Durante el anuncio, Fridnes afirmó que Pillay, de ochenta y cinco años, ha trabajado para que los estados y sus dirigentes respondan por sus actos y ha ofrecido esperanza a las víctimas.

During the announcement, Fridnes said that Pillay, eighty-five, has worked to hold states and their leaders accountable for their actions and offered hope to the victims.

Pillay dedicated the award to the survivor of international crime in a speech this Friday at the histrich room 600 of the Palace of Justice of Nuremberg, scene of the trials of Nuremberg 1945-1946 against the leaders of defeated Nazi Germany.

Pillay dedicó el premio a los sobrevivientes del crimen internacional en un discurso este viernes en la histórica sala 600 del Palacio de Justicia de Nuremberg, escenario de los juicios de Nuremberg 1945-1946 contra los líderes de la derrotada Alemania nazi.

Los nombres de los nominados al Nobel se mantienen en secreto, pero el Comité Noruego del Nobel informó que recibió 287 candidaturas para el premio de este año.

He didn't.

With letters being sent from every president and prime minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

And I'm about to settle or win two more.

Okay, so you start a war and then...

Israel and the United States have sharply criticized the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a human rights lawyer who was drawn into the international spotlight last year when a UN commission she chaired found that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

In a statement, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee misguided and said it had lost its moral compass.

He also condemned Pillay's work, accusing her of being prejudiced against Jews.

Turning to the northern sector, the Saudi network Al Hadath reported Israeli Air Force aircraft flying over Beirut.

Here's the prize being announced.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navatanam Navi Pillai.

the Nobel Prize Committee had 287 nominations to choose from and yet somehow couldn't look past the woman whose most consequential recent contribution to world peace was a report accusing Israel of genocide.

That they gave the 125th Nobel Prize to Navi Pillay was certainly out of left field.

I wanna begin with the President, as over the past thirty-six hours, the president has now spent his time raging at Norway and at the Nobel Committee for not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yesterday morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the twenty twenty-six Nobel Prize to a woman named Navai- Navi Pillay, an eighty-five-year-old South African jurist who led the International Tribunal on the Rwandan genocide.

She defended anti-apartheid activists.

She was the UN's human rights chief, serving as a judge on the International Criminal Court.

I settled eight wars." You didn't.

"With letters being sent from every president and prime minister from the countries that I helped to, to [laughs] the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I'm about to settle or win two more." Guh- Okay, so you start a war and then d- Uh, so e- no matter what happens, are you gonna pretend that he settled the Iran war? [laughs] I, who's actually believing in this person? Russia-Ukraine? You mean the war that's still going on, that you're literally going to go talk to to settle the war? You settled that war? You have to laugh at the stupidity of this person.

They're both happening at breakneck speed, but forget them.

Oh, maybe he meant, oh, so Ukraine war he's about to settle.

I'll bet you if you look at the Nobel Prize, look, Obama got it, and he didn't do anything.

Yes, we learned that Donald Trump was managing expectations ahead of his annual snub by those bitter, resentful, sardine-scoffing weirdos on the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who have consistently refused to acknowledge Trump's ending of eight wars on the pernickety, pedantic, purse-lipped grounds that he didn't.

But we learned that though Trump banging on and remorselessly on about how very much he deserves the Nobel gong is absolutely not an indication of a morbid obsession attached to chronic narcissism, because actually, and obviously, he doesn't care, because he already has one.

Last time they gave it to a young lady who's a fabulous person, and she said she didn't deserve it, that I deserved it, and she gave it to me, and I said, "Wow, what an honor."