Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay

(nobelprize.org)

123 points | by Anon84 2 hours ago

12 comments

  • killingtime74 1 hour ago
    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.
    • rags2riches 1 hour ago
      > In accordance with Nobel's will, the prize is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway unlike all the other awards chosen by the Swedish Nobel Committee.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize

      There's been accusations of leaks in connection to bets with the Nobel Price in Literature.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature_cont...

    • hparadiz 1 hour ago
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      • BigTTYGothGF 39 minutes ago
        One wonders how you would have felt about the 1973 prize if you had been alive at the time.
      • hackyhacky 1 hour ago
        Can you explain why this choice is offensive to you?
        • hparadiz 1 hour ago
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          • khalic 1 hour ago
            What was the report about?
            • hparadiz 1 hour ago
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              • Intermernet 1 hour ago
                If I'm doing a report on the corruption of the LAPD (as an example), I don't tend to bring up the organised crime in LA, let alone the Mafia in Milan.

                A report on abuses committed by the IDF should focus on abuses committed by the IDF. There are many reports on the the war crimes of Hamas, and there are many reports on the war crimes of Russia.

                You can't water down the behaviour of the IDF by claiming their actions were somehow justified by the actions of another group. That's how the cycle of aggression perpetuates, and how political agendas overrule human decency. That exact behaviour has some very bad connotations in world history.

              • khalic 1 hour ago
                What's the name of the committee? I need to check it myself
                • rithdmc 1 hour ago
                  It's linked in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018795
                  • khalic 56 minutes ago
                    The report where she acknowledges the massacre on the very first paragraph? OC should have read the damn thing before posting nonsense
                    • rithdmc 53 minutes ago
                      Yes, that report. There's no nuance to the OC argument - just denial of facts.

                      The reactionary propaganda of it being "one sided" or not including "Russia in Ukraine" in a report about genocide in Gaza has been common since the report came out.

              • andrepd 58 minutes ago
                Why should a report about crimes committed by the IDF write about crimes committed by Russia or by Hamas? That's the most ridiculous attempt at whataboutism I've seen in a long time.
          • dudefeliciano 1 hour ago
            "7 October 2025 marked two years since the brutal attack by Palestinian militants that killed 1200 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel"

            Statement by Navi Pillay, 28 October 2025

            https://www.un.org/unispal/document/statement-by-navi-pillay...

          • artisinal 1 hour ago
            Source: Trust me bro
          • torlok 1 hour ago
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            • ecshafer 57 minutes ago
              No actually it is my business to condemn people kidnapping, raping and murdering women and children.
            • enrightened 1 hour ago
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            • flyinglizard 1 hour ago
              I wholeheartedly support your point.

              All international oversight should be removed and Hamas and Israel could go at it as long and as hard as they wish.

              • bad_haircut72 1 hour ago
                Israel isnt an occupied nation
                • flyinglizard 38 minutes ago
                  Gaza wasn’t one either, and any qualms Hamas had could have been solved by negotiations rather than senseless bloodshed.
  • onepunchedman 1 hour ago
    Great to see that they're not afraid to stand up to the rising authoritarianism
    • fifilura 49 minutes ago
      The committee is independent from politics although some dictators may at times misunderstand that.
      • pczy 16 minutes ago
        I find it hard to see how the committee can be genuinely independent of politics when its members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
      • kzrdude 34 minutes ago
        They have really not made the impression that they are independent of politics, all laureates taken together. But if they improve I'm all for it.
        • fifilura 30 minutes ago
          They have opinions and moral values. And a lot of times they coincide with western democracy ideals.

          Or - like today - with rules based global world order.

      • yostrovs 20 minutes ago
        The committee is selected by the Norwegian parliament, a political body.
        • p-e-w 17 minutes ago
          And there is a long history of allegations of additional political influence beyond that.
  • ZiiS 27 minutes ago
    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.
    • brookst 15 minutes ago
      Which maybe is ok? It’s not a “most perfect person” prize, it’s a “did the most to advance peace” prize.

      It makes people uncomfortable, but maybe someone who reduces net suffering despite being responsible for some suffering is doing more than normal people who do no harm, but do no good?

  • JensRantil 1 hour ago
    Yay, congrats Navi! Thanks for contributing to international law!
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  • nervai 1 hour ago
    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...

    • vincnetas 52 minutes ago
      "The ICC poses an intolerable threat to U.S. sovereignty – it claims the authority to prosecute and even imprison American servicemen and officials operating on behalf of America’s national interest. Americans never signed up for this, and all American presidents since the ICC’s ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans. The ICC previously opened an investigation into U.S. servicemen and intelligence officers and has since refused to close these cases."

      Yeah, but somehow if i do some illegal shit according to USA they have no problem arresting me when i come visit (or if they really eager they come to visit me). But how dare you tell us what we can do or cant do INTOLERABLE.

      • Telemakhos 37 minutes ago
        Yes, that’s what sovereignty means: a sovereign state governs itself and is not governed by others. A sovereign state can agree to abide by certain rules or submit some disputes to another arbiter, but it does so consensually by treaty. The US never ratified a treaty establishing the authority of the ICC, so it has not consented to that diminution of sovereignty.

        You as an individual are not sovereign, and when you come to the land over which the US is sovereign, you are subject to US law.

        • cycomanic 26 minutes ago
          The main part of the argument is that the US is very happy to apply their laws to foreign citizens for things they have done on foreign soil and are also happy to legally or illegally extract those citizens from the foreign states. That does in fact directly violate those other states sovereignty.
        • yread 28 minutes ago
          Conversely, American individuals are also not sovereign so when they come to a sovereign land where they are sought (by the state or its partners through treaties) for crimes, they are subject to the the state's laws and treaties.
        • brookst 14 minutes ago
          This would more persuasive if the US didn’t have a long history of prosecuting, even kidnapping, foreign nationals on foreign soil for violations of US law.
        • vincnetas 26 minutes ago
          So it should be no surprise to USA that sovereign countries that abide to ICC rulings take actions against individual USA citizens.
          • pirate787 2 minutes ago
            This isn't true, the US considers prosecution by the ICC as an act of war.
    • Vaslo 40 minutes ago
      Yes because the only law that the US needs to recognize is its own.
      • khalic 19 minutes ago
        Oh but others must recognize America's laws right? Oh the hypocrisy
      • dudefeliciano 35 minutes ago
        doing a pretty shit job at that too tbh
  • thecatthe 54 minutes ago
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  • hparadiz 1 hour ago
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    • khalic 1 hour ago
      You mean war criminals like Netanyahu?
    • xg15 1 hour ago
      Get out of the Israeli bubble please...
      • cramer4next 1 hour ago
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        • dudefeliciano 1 hour ago
          No, being in a bubble means being disconnected from the broader reality.
          • cramer4next 58 minutes ago
            Not from my perspective. Being in bubble means your lacking experience and living a sheltered life. Reality is subjective to ones view.
            • dudefeliciano 46 minutes ago
              > lacking experience and living a sheltered life.

              Hence "Israeli Bubble", sheltered from the reality of their (government/army) actions, convinced to be the most moral army in the world.

              > Reality is subjective to ones view.

              Maybe your subjective reality, that's your thoughts and feelings. But there is an objective reality, like tens of thousands of children killed, the use of a starvation campaign in Gaza, all of Gaza City being turned to rubble which you can see for yourself on google maps satellite view, and many more such war crimes that have been factually proven.

              • cramer4next 12 minutes ago
                I'm still confused how this has anything to do with a noble prize?

                Secondly did you ever watch the aftermath of the U.S dropping atomic bombs on Japan? How many children were killed? How many innocent people suffered? Thats the "reality" of war.

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  • ReptileMan 38 minutes ago
    They should just rename it. Very little of the recent winners have made the world more peaceful. May have contributed to making it better.
    • jeltz 25 minutes ago
      Yes, but what has that to do with this year's winner?
  • throwfaraway135 1 hour ago
    Nobel Peace Prize is meaningless, people don't care about actual genocides why would they care about genocide+ (including rape)?

    It's like having your house on fire but patting yourself on the back for fixing a lamp.

    • gpvos 1 hour ago
      It is, like many things, how much meaning you attach to it yourself. Apparently Donald T. thinks it's very important, he makes a lot of fuss about it.

      Anyway, the NPP is one of the things that tries to push humanity on a broad scale in a better direction, and I'm grateful for that. It is important to at least speak out about injustice, and to celebrate those who do so, otherwise those injustices are never going to be fixed (I'm not even talking about punishing, although that should be done).

    • CaptWorld 1 minute ago
      Don't tell me that you think there's genocide in gaza?