Antoinette Lattouf Instagram – WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. Spending the evening with Iranian-born, British actress and activist @nazaninboniadi was invigorating and the generous injection of hope I needed after a truly awful month in national and international affairs. It’s hard to keep working and living a normal life knowing 1 child is being killed in Gaza every 10 minutes by Israeli forces, the repressive regime in Iran continues to oppress women and girls and violently clamps down on dissidents and 5 Australian women have been killed in 10 days by male violence. As MC of the @sydneypeacefoundation gala dinner, I had the pleasure of helping to honour this year’s laureate Nazanin Boniadi and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. She says women must play crucial role to play in ending the conflict in the Middle East. Nazanin became instrumental in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, following the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini in September last year. Amini died while in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police after being arrested for wearing “improper clothing”. The hashtag #WomanLifeFreedom has become a battle cry for women within and outside of Iran. Nazanin brought the issue to the world stage, advocating at the highest levels of the UN Security Council, the US Senate Human Rights Caucus, the British Parliament, and Australian Senate Inquiries. The world seems pretty detached from and lacking an appetite for peace and in conversation with Nazanin and Elizabeth Broderick, Australia’s longest serving sex discrimination commissioner and special rapporteur to the UN, we discussed the role international agencies can play (despite no enforcement power), intergenerational human rights advocacy and how to continue pushing for change when safety and the state of women’s affairs is regressing in so many arenas. Great Hall of the University of Sydney