Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize was given on Friday in Oslo, Norway.
Pillay is a former United Nations human rights chief, the organisation’s leading official for human rights during her tenure in that post. She is also a judge at the International Court of Justice. The announcement identifies her through those two roles: earlier leadership of United Nations human rights work, and service on the International Court of Justice.
She is named in full as Navanethem Pillay and, in the same identification, as Navi. The Nobel Peace Prize is the distinction she has received; Friday is the day given for the award; Oslo, in Norway, is the city where it was conferred.
For an international reader the facts are these. A former United Nations human rights chief who sits as a judge at the International Court of Justice has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Navanethem “Navi” Pillay is the laureate. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice are the institutions tied to her career in the report, and Oslo, Norway, is where the prize was awarded on Friday.
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