This year, 2020, marks the 16th year of the Lecture.

Speaker: 

Melissa Parke

Human rights lawyer and former Federal Parliamentarian

Lecture title: 

The Conscious Pariah

SATURDAY, 17 October 2020

Online Webinar

Free Entry (Registration required)

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Lecture title: “The Conscious Pariah”
(How distortions of fact, contortions of logic and assassinations of character are used against critics of Israel, while it poses as the plucky democracy and the eternal victim.)

About Melissa Parke

Melissa Parke commenced her legal career in 1990s before commencing work with the United Nations.  She was posted with the Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo in 1999, remaining in the UN for 8 years, including 2½ years with UNRWA in Gaza. She also worked in Lebanon and New York.

Melissa served 9 years in the Australian parliament as the Federal Labor Member for Fremantle, including time as Minister for International Development.  Since retiring from parliament, she has been a member of the UN Group of Eminent Experts (GEE), mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate violations of international law by the parties to the conflict in Yemen.