Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Dignity and resolve: Francesca Albanese’s When the World Sleeps humanises Palestinian lives

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par Martin Kear, Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

Francesca Albanese, an Italian lawyer and scholar, is the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Her job is to report to the UN on the human rights situation in these territories.

Since its inception in 1993, the role of rapporteur has been controversial and at times adversarial. Previous appointees were regularly castigated by Israeli governments and pro-Israel lobby groups for their…

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