Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South African human rights lawyer

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer, for her efforts to promote peace and international law, Report informs.

The Nobel committee said on Friday that Pillay, who has served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court, was a "lawyer and legal pioneer."

Pillay also chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territories, the committee said.