Each year on the evening before the Award is presented, the Sydney Peace Prize recipient presents the City of Sydney Peace Lecture.

On Wednesday 7 November Senator Sekai Holland, recipient of the 2012 Sydney Peace Prize, will deliver the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture in the Sydney Town Hall.

A story of courage and peace

Senator Sekai Holland, Co Minister for Reconciliation, Healing and Integration in the Cabinet of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, was selected by the Sydney Peace Prize jury “for a lifetime of outstanding courage in campaigning for human rights and democracy, for challenging violence in all its forms and for giving such astute and brave leadership for the empowerment of women.”

In addition to her work for the education of rural women and her founding of Australia’s anti Apartheid movement fifty years ago, Sekai Holland has been a significant leader of non violent, democracy campaigns, and is a key figure in her country’s national dialogue on how to heal the deep wounds of social conflict.

In response Senator Holland commented, “This award comes as a wonderful surprise but one which is so encouraging. I accept on behalf of the brave women I have worked with for so many years and for my colleagues in our present Organ for National Healing Reconciliation and Integration. I also acknowledge the long term support and friendship which I have received from Australian Aboriginal campaigners for human rights and for peace with justice.”

 Join us in celebrating Senator Holland’s achievements and supporting a culture of peace.

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