What are our obligations?
27 November 2025 – 6:30 pm
The Auditorium, 37 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills
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Parliamentarians are making decisions today that will define Australia’s compliance with international law in years ahead. From sanctions and arms exports to humanitarian aid and recognition of states, choices made now carry real legal and political consequences.
Join leading jurists and international law experts for a concise, high-level briefing on Australian state and territory obligations in overseas conflicts and the risks, responsibilities, and opportunities for state and territory parliamentary leadership.
This event is co-hosted by the ANU Law School, the International Commission of Jurists and Amnesty International. All welcome.
OUR SPEAKERS
Adjunct Professor Chris Sidoti
Professor Emily Crawford
Justice Elizabeth Evatt
Adjunct Professor Chris Sidoti is a leading human rights advocate and legal expert. He served as Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000), Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) and was the founding Director of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1987-1992). Internationally, he was a member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (2017-2019) and is currently a Commissioner on the UN Inquiry into the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.
Professor Emily Crawford is an internationally recognised expert in international law at Sydney Law School, specialising in international humanitarian and criminal law. In 2023, she was awarded the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law for her outstanding research contributions.
Justice Elizabeth Evatt will chair the event. Justice Evatt was the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia and amongst many other eminent roles was the first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.