Burma's most famous medical doctor, Dr Cynthia Maung, travelled to Australia to receive the 2013 Sydney Peace Prize and tell her story in the first week of November. Thousands of Australians listened to Dr Cynthia Maung speak about the important
“Your work is really wonderful. This is really building the foundation of happy society. So I appreciate.” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmHN5tq1Zk[/youtube] Following the conversation His Holiness said a few more words about the values of human rights, dignity, well-being,
ABC's Big Ideas have recorded many of the Sydney Peace Foundation's events this year. These have been broadcasted across Australia, the Pacific, and the world wide web
You are invited to a screening of: THE GHOSTS OF JEJU Friday 18 October 6pm Room 114, Mackie Building Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies The University of Sydney Arundel Street (near footbridge) A moving film about the determined resistance by the fishermen and farmers of Gangjeong
MEDIA RELEASE 26 September 2013 Announcing Jane Singleton AM, Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation Inaugural presenter and senior reporter for ABC TV’s 7.30 Report, Jane Singleton AM, will take over from Stuart Rees as the Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation. Jane has
Professor Richard Falk United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights speaking in Sydney, Thursday 19 September, 6.30 pm Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus The Palestinian Struggle for Self Determination and the Ordeal of Occupation Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor
It is the Foundation's pleasure to announce that our friend, the Global Social Justice Network, is hosting an exciting film and panel event next week. Trafficking, child labour, sex slavery, debt slavery and child soldiers are among the most usual forms of
Artist Jill Carter-Hansen designed the image PEACE IS IN YOUR HANDS in New Zealand in a small version in 1983 to assist fundraising in New Zealand at the time of the Cold War. Jill Carter-Hansen has been involved with both environmental
MEDIA RELEASE 17 August 2013, Sydney Humanitarian doctor to receive 2013 Sydney Peace Prize Dr Cynthia Maung, founder of the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Burmese border, will be the recipient of the 2013 Sydney Peace Prize to be awarded in Sydney on