peace

Conflict-related sexual violence against women increased by 50 per cent, the latest findings from the UN Women has uncovered. 

Twelve men signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. Seventy five years later, little has changed on women’s representation.

Sydney Peace Prize winner, Nazanin Boniadi, highlights the pivotal role of women in achieving peace in the Middle East by addressing critical issues and advocating for change.

Instead of spending $370 billion on submarines, an investment that would carry a better return for Australia would be an explicit budget of at least the same amount on building permanent peace.

On the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Australia announced it will gift $33 million worth of spy drones to the besieged nation. Few would quibble with us helping Ukraine defend its sovereignty. But what if we were equally generous in investing in peace?