Who is Navi Pillay, the South African judge who won the Nobel prize? We asked her biographer

By Sam Naidu, Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University

International human rights judge Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel peace prize. She was honoured for her lifelong dedication to international law and global justice.

To understand more about Pillay and her work, we spoke with Sam Naidu, a feminist and literary scholar with a focus on crime and justice, and the author of a biography…

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~	Smarter cities need more than smart algorithms. They need trust

~	How bionic eyes are becoming a reality

~	China’s panda diplomacy: how Beijing combines conservation and trade

~	Will AI be good or bad for the climate? Here’s what the latest evidence on energy use suggests

~	How dyspraxia can exhaust children and exclude them from social activities

~	When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting

~	Animals: Ben Affleck stars in this thriller about a politician who can’t hide his ugly side

~	What can free-living Indian street dogs teach us about how to care for pet dogs?

~	The pope has a lung nodule. What does this mean? And what’s the risk of cancer?

~	How a botched execution and proposed livestream of a firing squad fit in to the US’ death penalty history