{
  "id": 13082723,
  "title": "Nobelpreise: Friedensnobelpreis geht an Juristin Pillay aus Südafrika",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/nobelpreise-friedensnobelpreis-geht-an-juristin-pillay-aus-sudafrika",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T09:22:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/nobelpreise-friedensnobelpreis-geht-an-juristin-pillay-aus-suedafrika/100261002.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South African lawyer Navanethem Pillay. The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo announced the decision. Pillay received the honor \"for her efforts to promote peace and international law,\" said Nobel Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes. \"The recipient this year has played a crucial role in making war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide legally punishable,\" Frydnes added. The Nobel Committee called Pillay \"one of the most important legal experts of our time,\" according to the committee. Pillay served as a judge on the South African Supreme Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court. She also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and directed the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. \"Unfortunately, we didn't reach Navi Pillay,\" Frydnes said. Therefore, he sent a call to the laureate: \"If you see a Norwegian number, please pick it up; we would love to speak with you.\" The Nobel Peace Prize is considered the world's most prestigious award. In 2025, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the prize, but it was later deemed controversial as she dedicated her award to Donald Trump and symbolically gave him her Nobel medal. Trump has yet to accept his own award, as Nobel rules do not allow him to pass it on to Machado. This year, 287 candidates were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, significantly fewer than in 2025. Nominees can be cabinet members, university professors, heads of state, or previous laureates. Among the nominees were 208 individuals and 79 organizations. Like the other Nobel prizes, the Peace Prize was awarded this year with twelve million Swedish Kroner, a million Kroner more than the previous year. The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize is the final announcement of the week. In recent days, laureates in the categories of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Literature have already been announced. Among the three Medicine laureates, two German researchers, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, were recognized. The prestigious award for literature went to Canadian Anne Carson this year. Next week, the final award will be the Swedish National Bank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Technically, it is not a Nobel Prize because it does not stem from Nobel's testament. However, it is traditionally awarded after the Nobel Prizes on December 10th, the inventor's death anniversary. All awards are given on December 10th, except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which has been given in Oslo since the first Nobel Prize distribution in 1901.",
  "summary": "Für ihren Einsatz gegen Menschenrechtsverletzungen und für das Völkerrecht: Mit dem Friedensnobelpreis wird in diesem Jahr die südafrikanische Juristin Navanethem Pillay geehrt.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}