Francesca Albanese
International lawyer and academic
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| 2024 | Albanese was chosen as the Passblue UN Person of the Year for 2024, recognized for her strong leadership in upholding the UN Charter and advocating for universal human rights. |
| October 2024 | Responding to two reports presented to the United Nations in October 2024, the World Jewish Congress accused Francesca Albanese of Holocaust inversion by comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, labeling her statements as offensive and a distortion of history. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, stated that Albanese is 'unfit for her role' and that the UN should not tolerate antisemitism from UN-affiliated officials. |
| August 2024 | Albanese was one of many UN Special Rapporteurs who signed an open letter addressing the international community on the third anniversary of the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan, expressing concerns over human rights abuses, particularly against women and girls. |
| July 2024 | In July 2024, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer requested an investigation by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk into Albanese's trip to Australia, questioning whether pro-Palestinian groups funded her flights during that trip. |
| June 2024 | Albanese was part of a group of UN experts who warned against the sale of arms to Israel for use in the Gaza conflict, stating that arms suppliers would be implicated in human rights violations. |
| March 26 2024 | Albanese reported to the UN Human Rights Council, stating that Israel's actions in Gaza amounted to genocide. |
| February 2024 | Albanese responded on Twitter to French President Emmanuel Macron's characterization of the October 7 massacre as the largest antisemitic massacre of the century, which prompted condemnation from the French Foreign Ministry and led to the Israeli government declaring her persona non grata. |
| 2023 | Following the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Albanese called for an immediate ceasefire, warning that Palestinians in Gaza were at risk of ethnic cleansing. |
| October 7 2023 | The Hamas-led attack on Israel occurred, which Albanese later referred to as a response to Israeli oppression rather than a reflection of the victims' Judaism. |
| July 2023 | During the 30th Meeting of the 53rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese presented a report accusing Israel of turning the West Bank into an open-air prison, stating that Israel's regime imposed on Palestinians can be defined as apartheid. |
| May 3 2023 | On 3 May 2023, Francesca Albanese tweeted about the alarming situation she witnessed, stating that she had seen too many Palestinian deaths and confronted a lack of accountability for the abuses occurring. |
| April 2023 | Albanese received the International Stefano Chiarini Award in recognition of her journalistic work covering Palestine and the Middle East. |
| April 27 2023 | On 27 April 2023, three former holders of the UN Special Rapporteur position publicly urged the UN to defend Francesca Albanese, describing the attacks against her as 'slanderous' and 'personal'. |
| April 26 2023 | On 26 April 2023, Amnesty International Italy published a letter of support for Francesca Albanese, which was signed by numerous Italian rights groups, MPs, jurists, and academics. |
| February 2023 | In February 2023, 18 members of the United States Congress called for Francesca Albanese to be removed from her position as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories due to accusations of demonstrating a consistent bias against Israel. |
| January 2023 | A statement was released in January 2023 by various human rights organizations, academic institutions, and civil society organizations in defense of Albanese, commending her efforts to protect human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. |
| December 2022 | Sixty-five scholars of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish studies issued a statement in December 2022 supporting Francesca Albanese, asserting that the campaign against her was aimed at silencing her as a UN official reporting on Israel's human rights violations. |
| October 18 2022 | Francesca Albanese recommended in her first report as the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories that UN member states develop a plan to end the Israeli settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime, concluding that the Israeli occupation was a repressive regime preventing the realization of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. |
| May 1 2022 | Francesca Albanese was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for a three-year term, making her the first woman to hold this position. |
| 2020 | Francesca Albanese co-authored the book 'Palestinian Refugees in International Law', published by Oxford University Press, alongside Lex Takkenberg. |
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