Indira Rosenthal is an international lawyer with 30 years’ experience in international criminal law, human rights, and humanitarian law, specializing in advancing gender equality. Her work focuses on law and justice sector reform, advocacy, and capacity building, primarily in the areas of gender violence and other gender-based rights violations, as well as women and children’s access to justice. Indira consults widely in her areas of expertise, including for UNICEF, Amnesty International, UN Women, the World Health Organization, the Human Dignity Trust, and the Family Court of Australia. She also regularly advises governments on reform agendas to remove discriminatory laws and to strengthen the protection of the rights of children, women, and other marginalized people.

Formerly, Indira served as Gender and Legal Adviser at Amnesty International, Legal Counsel with Human Rights Watch’s International Justice Program, and as a senior Australian government lawyer. In that capacity, she was a member of the Australian delegation to the 1998 UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an ICC.

Indira has published numerous legal research and analytical reports, as well as academic works in her areas of expertise. She was lead editor and an author of the award-winning book, Gender and International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2022). She is an Adjunct Researcher with the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania.