Zohl de Ishtar

In 2019 De Ishtar was acquitted of committing sexual assault by Kununurra Magistrates Court.

From 1999 to 2001 she was the founder and director of the short-lived Kapululangu Women's Law and Culture Centre in Wirrimanu, where she lived and worked alongside Aboriginal women. In 2003 she was awarded a PhD from Deakin University, based on her research in Wirrimanu. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Prize Peace, a nomination that recognised her work in anti-nuclear education with indigenous peoples.

In 1995 she travelled with the flotilla of ships who travelled to Moruroa to protest against French nuclear testing there and was the only Australian to make the full 483 kilometre journey.

Zohl de Ishtar (born 1953) is an Irish-Australian sociologist, anti-nuclear activist and feminist. Founder of Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific and the Kapululangu Women's Law and Culture Centre, she has campaigned for peace throughout her career. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

De Ishtar was born in Adelaide in 1953. She was awarded an MA by Macquarie University, and an MPhil by the University of Sydney. In 1982 she travelled to the United Kingdom to join the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, where she spent much of her time at Green Gate. Whilst there she started the Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (WWNFIP) movement in the UK. She stated that the movement was born as the result of a party held at the protest camp to "celebrate the strength of our Indigenous Pacific sisters". The organisation campaigned to raise awareness amongst British peace activists about the issues facing colonized Pacific countries.