South African Jurist Navi Pillay Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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Τhe Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay for advancing peace and international law.

The committee praised her judicial rigor, personal integrity and remarkable courage. At a critical moment for global security, it stressed that the ability to resolve conflicts peacefully, without resorting to force, depends directly on respect for the international rule of law. It added that a stable international legal framework, in which those responsible for grave crimes are held accountable and victims obtain justice, remains the essential precondition for a peaceful world.

Born in Durban, South Africa, to a family of Indian Tamil descent, Pillay faced discrimination from an early age. After studying law, she opened her own practice in 1967 and vigorously defended activists fighting apartheid. She later studied at Harvard University, earning a doctorate in juridical science (S.J.D.) in 1988.