2024 Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture

Please join us for the Lecture and Award Ceremony to honour this year’s Peace Prize recipient, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

The 2024 Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony on Monday 18 November from 6.30pm to 8pm at the Sydney Town Hall. Please arrive at 6pm, the program will commence at 6.30pm sharp.

Each year, the Sydney Peace Prize brings the Sydney community together to talk about peace, justice, and non-violence, and to honour inspiring peacemakers.

This year, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Sydney Peace Prize, for courageous and highly regarded humanitarian work that serves our common humanity. In a year marking the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and amid unprecedented challenges to respect for international humanitarian law, the work of the global Movement is as important as it has ever been.

Wherever civilians are threatened by conflict, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is steadfast and courageous in its support for their rights and dignity even when facing increasing risk to their own safety and security.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and is guided by the Geneva Conventions and the Movement’s Fundamental Principles: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality.