Australian Federation of Women Voters at the Hague Conference in 1930, when the issue of nationality laws that discriminated against women was discussed. This eventually led to the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women in 1957. At the same time, she was heavily involved in the League of Nations and the International Alliance of Women. In Berlin, she addressed three thousand people at a peace conference. On the way back to Australia in 1935, Rich attended a conference of the International Alliance of Women at Istanbul and visited Palestine to meet Palestinian members of the Alliance. Marriage and Jewish activism In 1937, Rich married Moïse Aaron Schalit (1875-1959), a Melbourne doctor involved in the family planning movement. She continued speaking to international peace meetings and women's groups, and also became involved in Jewish affairs. From 1936, she was involved with the New South Wales branch of the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first president (1937–40) of the Australian Federation of the Women's International Zionist Organization. In 1961 she restarted the Australian Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. During World War II Rich served on the human rights committee of the United Nations Association of Australia and was a member of the Pan-Pacific and South East Asia Women's Association of Australia, which promoted the education of Indigenous women. During International Women's Year in 1975, she spoke in Canberra, receiving a standing ovation. During her later life, she collaborated with the National Library of Australia, providing considerable documentation to the library, but failing in her attempt to establish a separate women's centre. In 1980, at the age of 92, she established a halfway house for women released from prison. Awards In 1967 Rich was made an MBE for "community welfare services, particularly as a leader of movements for the advancement of women". She was awarded the United Nations peace medal in 1976 and in 1982 the Anzac peace prize. Death Ruby Rich died at Bondi Beach on 10 May 1988. She was cremated. References 1888 births 1988 deaths Australian feminists Australian eugenicists Sex education advocates 20th-century Australian women Australian Zionists Australian pacifists