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Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
The 85-year-old South African jurist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international law. Hours later, the United States announced broad new sanctions against the International Criminal Court, drawing immediate pushback from allied nations.
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Navanethem "Navi" Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The United States announced new sanctions against the International Criminal Court hours after Pillay won the prize.
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The foreign ministers of eight allied nations issued a joint statement opposing the US sanctions.
Nobel Peace Prize and sanctions
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, an 85-year-old leading South African-born jurist who is also a judge at the International Court of Justice and has specialized in international law for decades, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Hours after the announcement of her win, the Trump administration unveiled broad new sanctions against the International Criminal Court. Pillay previously served as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, and she referred to her recent work overseeing and chairing the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a United Nations commission that concluded in 2025 that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Health officials in Gaza say that at least 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 18,000 children, have been killed in Gaza over the past three years as of October 2026. Pillay's exact birth year remains disputed; NPR reports she was born in the city of Durban in 1941 and became the first woman of color to open a legal practice in her home province of Natal, while Al Jazeera reports she was born in 1940 to parents of Indian-Tamil descent in the racially segregated city in South Africa's Natal province.
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