 In December 2017, and again in 2018 and 2019, Parke was appointed by the UN Human Rights Commissioner to the "Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen", to investigate human rights violations in Yemen.In April 2019, she was selected by the Australian Labor Party to contest the federal seat of Curtin, but stepped down from her candidacy following a media campaign against her because of her advocacy for Palestinian rights.In 2020 the West Australian newspaper and the Herald Sun separately issued apologies to Parke for their articles, conceding that there was no truth in the imputations against her in their articles.