Navi Pillay jokes: "If you clap louder maybe I'll share the Nobel Prize with Trump"

“If you clap a little louder, maybe I'll share the prize with Trump." 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay said this jokingly after learning she had received the recognition. The reaction was captured in a video shared by Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard in Nuremberg. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize last year and presented Donald Trump with her medal shortly after the United States ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. It was a largely symbolic gesture: the Nobel Committee in fact declared that the honor itself is not transferable.

Awarded for her work against war crimes

Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay, it was explained during the proclamation, has demonstrated "exceptional courage and integrity" in his work against "war crimes". Born on 23 September 1941, she held the position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. South African of Tamil Indian origins, she was the first non-white woman to hold the role of judge at the High Court of South Africa. He also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In April 2015, Pillay became the sixteenth commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty.

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