In March 2024 Francesca Albanese submitted A/HRC/55/73 to the UN Human Rights Council. It applied the Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions to documented Israeli military conduct...

Six months after her first report, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese filed A/79/384. It named states supplying arms to Israel and applied the third-state complicity framework of the Genocide Convention,...

While Francesca Albanese held the UN Special Rapporteur mandate, US sanctions were imposed. Her bank account was closed. Her medical insurer refused to reimburse her. Her diplomatic visa was withdrawn....

The pressure applied to Francesca Albanese is not an exception. Richard Falk held the same mandate and faced calls for removal from the same states fifteen years earlier. Agnes Callamard...