Sydney Peace Foundation is to award a posthumous Gold Medal to Stéphane Hessel On 2 May, at the Australian Embassy in Paris, the Sydney Peace Foundation will award a posthumous Gold Medal for Human Rights to Stéphane Hessel for his life-long contribution to building a more peaceful and just society. Stéphane Hessel, a German born [...]
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Mar
The Vision of Stephane Hessel
obituary 6 Mar 2013 By Stuart Rees The man who was to be awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize died last week. Stephane Hessel inspired the Occupy movement and lived an exceptional life. Stuart Rees on what Hessel might have told Australians On the day that Shadow Minister Scott Morrison was falsely portraying asylum seekers [...]
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Feb
Cruelty as policy: the Israeli army’s culture of revenge
Much attention has been given to Prisoner X, but far less has been granted to the many Palestinian prisoners who are still suffering in Israeli detention, writes Stuart Rees. Publicity surrounding the mystery of Australian Ben Zygier – Prisoner X – and the death on Sunday of the allegedly tortured prisoner Arafat Jaradat has provoked [...]
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Jan
Establishing the facts about the boycott of Israeli academic institutions
By Paul Duffill Published in The Conversation on 15th January 2012. Boycotting the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is not Anti-Semitic; it’s a recognition of violations of international law. Flickr/delayed gratification. The last weeks of 2012 saw a great amount of criticism levelled at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University and its [...]
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Jan
BDS campaign questions academics’ courage
By Stuart Rees At the end of last year, The Australian newspaper spent days deriding Dr. Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies whose governing Council supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the government of Israel. Consistent with his colleagues’ stance, Lynch refused to host an Israeli Professor, [...]
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Jan
Boycotting Sri Lanka is not cricket
By Prof Stuart Rees In answer to the comment ‘Stand up for Human Rights in Sri Lanka’, a young man wearing a sombrero and an Australian flag draped around his shoulders, responded, ‘Fuck human rights.’ It was 10:05 am on Thursday January 3rd, a hot blue sky day, perfect for the start of the Australia [...]
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Dec
Why boycotting Israel matters
By Antony Loewenstein. First published in ABC’s The Drum on 18 December 2012. An academic boycott of Israeli universities isn’t an attack on freedom of speech. The evidence tells us these institutions are key battlegrounds for breaches of international law towards the Palestinians, argues Antony Loewenstein. New Zealand’s $20 billion national pension fund announced this [...]
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Dec
Why I Boycott Israel
By Jake Lynch Sydney University academic Jake Lynch has come under fire this week for his stance on Israel. Today he argues his case: Palestinians and dissenting Israelis need international support to achieve justice The University of Oslo announced this week it is ending its contract with the security company G4S, which runs prisons in [...]
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Dec
What ‘Impartial’ Means At The Oz
By Jake Lynch Chris Mitchell claims The Oz is committed to running ‘impartial information’. That wasn’t apparent when Christian Kerr reported on Jake Lynch’s boycott of a visiting Israeli academic Journalist Christian Kerr recently filed a series of critical articles in The Australian about me over my support for an academic boycott of Israel, and [...]
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Dec
2012 Cabramatta High Peace Day – Official Photos
“Sekai Holland: A Story of Courage and Peace” From 2012 Cabramatta High Peace Day, posted by Sydney Peace Foundation on 12/11/2012 (65 items) Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher 2 A big thank you to our photographer Gobie Rajalingam, who graduated from his Master of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in 2009. [...]
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