Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.7 million), is due to be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo received nominations for 287 candidates for the 2026 prize, and just more than a quarter of them are organisations.
Contenders included US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, the International Space Station, emergency teams in Sudan, children's advocates in Ukraine and two top international courts.
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The Nobel for medicine went to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
The physics award recognised a scientist's efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos.
The chemistry prize recognised two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the literature prize on Thursday.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Monday.
The prize money is 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.7 million), whether for an individual, small group of laureates or organisation.
The year 2026 marks the 125th anniversary of the peace prize, which has gone to 112 individuals and 28 separate institutions since its inception in 1901.
Just 20 of the 112 individual laureates have been women, but eight of those women received the prize in the past 15 years.
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