Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

vintagedave

Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017966

nervai

Reminder that the US administration is on a campaign to dismantle the ICC for echoing similar findings to this Nobel Prize winner in her role at UNHRC [1]. I'm extremely grateful to, and humbled by, these people continuing their brave work knowing they will face the full wrath of the US and Israel govs and their campaigns to dismantle accountability for the worst crimes. [1] https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

JensRantil

Yay, congrats Navi! Thanks for contributing to international law!

killingtime74

I was just checking which were the top guesses on polymarket before the announcement and this winner was not even a choice on there. At least we know there's no insider trading at the Nobel foundation.

khalic

A clear FU to the Cheeto, love it

onepunchedman

Great to see that they're not afraid to stand up to the rising authoritarianism

ZiiS

The problem is you have to be noteworthy enough to be considered; and are going to be in close proximity of atrocities (hopefully trying to prevent them). Realistically this means a higher percentage of laureate are now generally accepted to have some complicity in atrocities then the percentage of normal people.

josu

> in 2019 she became an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case in which Myanmar stands accused of genocide. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/pillay/facts/ I wonder who committed said genocide... oh, yeah, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1991/kyi/facts/

nxobject

I'll be amused to see how the administration reacts. Perhaps we'll end up having the Trump Prizes.

737min

Good read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eel...

jonathanlydall

My wife (also of Indian descent and from Durban) was happy when I forwarded her a BBC link of this news. She remembered her late mother used to talk a lot of her as she managed to become a lawyer despite being an Indian in apartheid South Africa.

mandeepj

This announcement has become an annual troll event for the lunatic in the office; I heard he was pretty pissed off this morning, although that’s usually the case with him.

dang

Related ongoing thread: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021066 - Oct 2026 (288 comments)

throwitaway222

They went for the IvsP and chose a side, nothing interesting here.

sailingcode

What a courageous woman. There is so much suffering and horror involved. And Scandinavians aren't shy to set a statement.

carefree-bob

Unfortunately Nobel Peace prizes are stained with the reputation of going to some pretty undeserving people (Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Obama, etc) and this mars the image of the prize even as a whole. There are actually people who spend their lives working for peace, and die in the effort. And then there are people like Henry Kissinger. They share the same prize. More recently, the prizes are even more obviously politicized(1), so when the west is trying to overthrow Iran, it gives the prize to western-backed dissidents fighting for "women's rights" in Iran - the nation that has female airline pilots and university professors, but not to the scores of dissidents executed by Saudi Arabia, where women only recently got the right to drive. None of those murdered by Saudi Arabia, even if they died arguing for women's rights, will ever qualify for the Nobel Peace price. Not while Iran still needs to be overthrown. 1. See https://www.eureporter.co/nobel-peace-prize/2025/10/27/when-... for a survey of recent winners and what political agenda was pushed with each award.

vincnetas

and here you go US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condems as 'assault on rule of law' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj20vkkx3rdvo

jameshilliard

Nobel Peace Prize once again being given out to terrible people.[0] She'll fit right in with Kissinger and Arafat. [0] https://unwatch.org/un-watch-documents-navi-pillays-bias/

shevy-java

This kind of explains why the Trump clique declared total war against the International Court of Justice against potential pedophile victims. We really need to do our own investigation into the Epstein situation - the whole behaviour of Trump acting here is very strange. Obviously Trump acts on behalf of other people telling him what to do, be it him acting as agent Krasnov serving Putin, or here, in the name of Netanyahu. Trump is like the ultimate tool. And he is getting richer by the second. Why is that money not given to The People?