OsloSouth Africa’s judge who defended Mandela won the Peace Prize.
The committee said she held states and leaders accountable and brought hope to victims.
She chaired the UN inquiry that concluded last year Israel committed genocide in Gaza, a finding Israel dismissed.
She receives the 12 million crown prize in Oslo on 10 December.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 400+ reports worldwide
- Al-Monitor
- leads with Pillay's Mandela and apartheid work and her Gaza commission, noting Israel dismissed the report as "scandalous"
- Hindustan Times leans favorable
- foregrounds Pillay's Indian indentured-labour ancestry and her Natal childhood
- The National leans favorable
- centres the committee's language on her ICC and South African court record and frames her as a defender of rule of law
Sources: Al-Monitor, Hindustan Times, The National