2026 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Human Rights Lawyer Navi Pillay | EWTN News Nightly

Description: The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love, associate professor of international relations at The Catholic University of America, joins to discuss what it was about Navi Pillay's work that stood out to the Nobel Committee and led to this decision.


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