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PUBLIC STATEMENT: Sydney Peace Foundation opposes the UK decision to extradite Julian Assange to the US 

Australian citizen, whistleblower, journalist and publisher, Julian Assange, has been persecuted and imprisoned for revealing details of murder and mayhem by the US government in Iraq and Afghanistan. In what Independent MP, Andrew Wilkie, calls ‘an international farce’, and in Professor Clinton Fernandes...

Statement: The UK should refuse to extradite Julian Assange to the USA

The Sydney Peace Foundation calls on the UK Government to refuse to extradite Julian Assange to the USA, where he is likely to face serious human rights violations in pre-trial detention. The allegations of rape and other sexual violence against...

How Julian Assange is putting the Australian Government’s character to the test

Being forced to take extraordinary measures by seeking political asylum in Ecuador shows just what a desperate situation Julian Assange has found himself in. Faced with the very real prospect of extradition to the US, once he fronts up in...

Julian Assange: the freedom of free speech

By Professor Stuart Rees, Founder of the Sydney Peace Foundation There are a few days left to appeal the British High Court’s five to two ruling that Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to be interviewed about alleged sexual...

Sydney Peace Medal: Julian Assange

The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its Gold Medal for peace with justice to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The citation reads, ‘For exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights’. The Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Professor Stuart...

Time for government to stand ground and protect Assange

WikiLeaks’s latest release of confidential emails obtained from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor indicate the US Department of Justice has issued a secret, sealed indictment against Julian Assange. While the Department of Justice has refused to confirm the existence...

Mr Rudd: Protect Assange! Open Letter and petition.

This is an open letter to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. It calls on the Australian government to take steps to ensure Julian Assange’s human rights are protected. It will be delivered on 19 December 2011, but...

Professor Noam Chomsky praises Julian Assange and the Sydney Peace Foundation

Professor Noam Chomsky, the “greatest intellectual influence in the Western world for the past forty years”, has paid tribute to Julian Assange in stating, “I thank you profusely for the way in which you have exercised your responsibilities as a...

JULIAN ASSANGE RECEIVES GOLD MEDAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: LONDON

Wednesday 11 May Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Gold Medal at a ceremony overnight in London’s Frontline Club for “exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights”. Presented by veteran Australian broadcaster Mary...

SPF Gold Medal to Julian Assange

On May 10 2011, at a ceremony at London’s Frontline Club, the Sydney Peace Foundation awarded its Gold Medal for Peace with Justice to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The citation reads, ‘For exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights’. Read...

 A Champion for Justice – My Tribute to John Pilger: Stuart Rees

People of the world who cherish human rights have lost a champion. The courageous, skilled, inimitable John Pilger, prolific author, film maker, foreign and war correspondent died in London on December 30 2023. He was 84 years old. This piece was...

Myanmar peace advocate to receive Gold Medal for Human Rights

Sydney Peace Foundation awards Myanmar peace advocate Gold Medal for Human Rights Aung Myo Min, Union Minister for Human Rights in the cabinet of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, will receive the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Gold Medal for Human...

Midnight Oil win Sydney Peace Foundation’s gold medal for human rights

This article first appeared in the The Guardian on 14 October. Tickets for the November events in Sydney are available via http://tix.yt/midnight-oil-gold-medal Australian band Midnight Oil will be awarded the gold medal for human rights by the Sydney Peace Foundation for its...

Middle East peace: combative Sydney academic speaks up for Palestine

An Australian professor is at the heart of a Middle East peace conference that has gone largely unreported in the west, writes Nikki Barrowclough.   One evening in Doha, in December: Sydney University’s Professor Stuart Rees is standing in the...

EMPIRE in Enmore

For the music lover and theatre enthusiast alike, the Kinetic Energy Theatre Company’s coming season of EMPIRE offers an engaging night out. Hot off the creative drawing board, this latest and updated generation of our acclaimed play will hit the...

2002 Gold Medal for Human Rights Recipient The Dalai Lama: Ethics for a Whole World

This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama was invited by the Sydney Peace Foundation to participate in discussions of Ethics for a Whole World at the New South Wales Parliament House attended by more than 170 students and others. A...

Brave and principled Ecuador: Protection of an Australian citizen

By Professor Stuart Rees: Ecuador should be congratulated on it’s brave and principled stand in giving asylum to Julian Assange. The far larger governments, of the UK, Sweden and the USA should be castigated for their refusal to guarantee any safe...

Brave and Principled Ecuador

The Sydney Peace Foundation thanks the government of Ecuador for giving asylum to Julian Assange.   Professor Stuart Rees, chair of the Foundation says, ‘ Ecuador understands the nature of justice, but it seems that in failing to give assurances...

About-face on Hicks a victory for the bullied

by Mary Kostakidis So the Australian government has shot itself in the foot while aiming at David Hicks. It would be funny if it weren’t so appalling. The withdrawal of the dubious literary proceeds of crime action against Hicks raises...

US bullies have no respect for liberties

By Professor Stuart Rees, in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Letters to the Editor: The prospect of US charges against Julian Assange will be a test of the Australian government’s courage in standing up to big brother America, thereby showing its...

E M P I R E: a play inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy & Wikileaks

A thought provoking play by Kinetic Energy Theatre Company, inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy & Wikileaks One hour of wit, pathos, live music and visual imagery exposing a Machiavellian world in Free Fall is an adaptation of two political essays by Arundhati Roy: "The loneliness of Noam Chomsky", written in honour of Chomsky for his monumental legacy as analyst of Power and the Mass Media. And: "Confronting Empire", Roy's passionate call for resistance and change.

SPF Press Releases

14 September 2017: Australia’s response to the Rohingya Crisis embarrassingly inadequate    16 May, 2016, 2016 Sydney Peace Prize Winner Naomi Klein: “Lack of Political Leadership on Climate Change in Australia” 14 May, 2016, Naomi Klein Wins 2016 Sydney Peace Prize  ...

Whistling in the wind: is there anybody out there?

AS MOST Australians contemplate a traditional Christmas of over-indulgence and recuperation, we should spare a thought for one of our less fortunate compatriots. He lives in exile under house arrest, awaiting one last hopeful court appeal. He faces a perilous...

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