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Who is Navi Pillay? From apartheid-era lawyer to Nobel Peace Prize winner

IOL · 09 October 2026 at 20:03

Who is Navi Pillay? From apartheid-era lawyer to Nobel Peace Prize winner

South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights chief and International Criminal Court judge, has won the Nobel Peace Prize after a career spanning apartheid-era legal activism, international justice and human rights advocacy.

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