Breaking the blockade: What will it take to end starvation in Gaza?

Chris Sidoti

Chris Sidoti is an international human rights consultant, specialising in the international human rights system and in national human rights institutions.

Since 2000 he has provided consultancy services on human rights law and practice to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNDP, UNICEF, the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and several national human rights institutions.

He was director of the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva (2003-2007), served as Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000), Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) and Foundation Director of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1987-1992).

From 1999 to 2003 he was principal facilitator and interlocutor in a human rights initiative between the Government of Australia and the Government of Myanmar.

Jessica Whyte

Jessica Whyte is Scientia Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNSW Sydney, with a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Law. Her work integrates political philosophy, intellectual history, and political economy to analyse contemporary forms of sovereignty, human rights, humanitarianism, and militarism. Jessica’s work has been published in a range of fora including Contemporary Political Theory; Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development; Law and Critique; Political Theory; and South Atlantic Quarterly. She is the author of two monographs, Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben, and The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism.