October 31 marks 23 years since UN and Member States pledged their support for women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in peace and security. October 31 marks 23 years since UN and Member States pledged their support for women’s full, equal,
Recognising the #WomanLifeFreedom movement in Iran This year's Sydney Peace Prize Lecture will be delivered by Iranian-born human rights activist and actress Nazanin Boniadi at the Sydney Town Hall on 2 November. The Sydney Peace Prize is Australia’s international prize for peace,
Last week, the Sydney Peace Foundation shared the words of our 2016 Laureate Naomi Klein as she called for a united voice for peace and justice in the face of atrocities in Israel and in Gaza. She reminded us that we
On 14 October 2023 Australians will be asked to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a generous invitation to all Australians
The Sydney Peace Foundation is excited to announce Nazanin Boniadi, an Iranian-born human rights activist and actress, was officially announced as the 2023 Sydney Peace Prize winner for her commitment to advancing women’s rights in Iran at the Sydney Town
To celebrate a precious goal all need to carry and to know a vision for a life-time high from pole to pole, from land to sky prescriptions for a world to run a marathon in sight and mind so, no-one ever falls behind in contest for humanity where
The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been named winner of the 2021-22 Sydney Peace Prize. The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for an established First Nations Voice to parliament enshrined in the constitution and the establishment of a Makarrata
Statement named winner ahead of historic referendum A push for First Nations recognition in the Constitution has been awarded Australia's only international prize for peace - the Sydney Peace Prize. The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been named winner of the
The Uluru Statement from the Heart wins the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize Today marks the beginning of Reconciliation week, a yearly reminder of the effort needed still to bridge the gap between black and white Australians and to recognise First Nations
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says the Uluru Statement from the Heart winning the 2021 Sydney Peace prize was recognition of the Statement and all who contributed to it. "This is a recognition of the Statement and all of the people
The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been recognised for its "clear and comprehensive agenda for healing and peace", as advocates call for government action on a referendum. The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize,
The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been announced winner of the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize; Australia’s only international prize for peace. Proud First Nations leaders and drivers of the Uluru Statement, Professor Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman from the
The Sydney Peace Foundation at the University of Sydney chose the Uluru Statement from the Heart as the winner of the prize from over 200 nominations, noting the document is a “clear and comprehensive agenda” for healing and peace.
Four years after it was written, judges says the ‘powerful and historic offering of peace’ offers a clear agenda for healing in Australia, and ‘it is now up to us all to make its vision a reality’
Today we bring you 2010 Peace Prize winner, Dr Vandana Shiva who is a physicist and social activist. In this powerful extract from her lecture, she frames the world’s ecological crisis as the “leftover ruins of a war against the
“The truth telling is to liberate everyone. It’s to liberate us from our own sense of superiority or to liberate us from our sense of oppression… and we’ve got to deal honestly with this if we want to create a
Up next in our new series, 5 Minutes of Peace, is Sydney Peace Prize laureate, Pat Dodson. In 2008, Senator Dodson received the prize for his courageous advocacy of the human rights of Indigenous people, for distinguished leadership of the
Next up in our new series, 5 Minutes of Peace, is Black Lives Matter, recipients of the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize. In this video, Patrice Cullors, who accepted the Prize on behalf of the network, delves into the origins of
In 2017, the Black Lives Matter Global Network received the Sydney Peace Prize for building a powerful movement for racial equality and courageously reigniting a global conversation. We recently caught up with Rodney Diverlus who accepted the Prize in 2017
Naomi Klein was the winner of the 2016 Peace Prize. Naomi is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker. Her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, published last year, was an instant New-York-Times bestseller.
Covid-19 is re-setting our global understanding of how we need to behave and respond to a global crisis, giving a new sense of humanity and what is important for our lives – physically, emotionally, spiritually and economically. It is demonstrating in
We were so honoured to award the Gold Medal for Human Rights to Christiana Figueres on 12 March in the Lord Mayor's Reception Room at the Sydney Town Hall. Christiana gave an impassioned speech about the need for urgent action
What a difference four years make. December 12, 2019: Scott Morrison was having a so-so day. He had faced international criticism of the Government’s response to climate change. Bushfires were raging up and down the coast of NSW, and Sydney had
During her time in Australia to accept the 2019 Sydney Peace Prize on behalf of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke spoke with Vogue Australia's Clare Press about the origins of Me Too, the viral hashtag, and how work to
The leader of the Paris Climate Agreement talks says she is "deeply pained" by the attitude of the Australian Government to climate change in the wake of this summer's unprecedented bushfires. Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres became the United Nations' top