“This genocide, looking at it well, has our fingerprints, is under our eyes. To deny it today means to be ignorant or accomplices. Stopping it now is an obligation and it is also the only way to stay human”, It was already a river in full more than a month ago at the Hyenas, Francesca Albanese.
He did not stop until then, he will not stop now the onu speaker who ended up in the sights of penalties imposed by the United States for its (explicit and uncomfortable) report From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide.
Since 2022 the Albanian has been United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. In recent days, it ended in the center of a frontal attack by the US Republican senator Marco Rubiowho invoked penalties against her. The reason?
According to the States, the Albanian would have “Collaborated directly with the International Criminal Court (CPI) to investigate, arrest, detense or criminal citizens of the United States or Israel, without the consent of these two countries “, defining this a” serious violation“Of national sovereignty.
His systematic complaints about the economic and political role of the western powers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in short, do not like them and ended up under pressure for “The economy of the genocide revealed“, That is, the economic and military interests that feed and profit from the war against the Palestinian civilians.
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The European Union also in the sights, which, according to Francesca Albanese, “maintains a seriously compromised position “On the Palestinian question, actually deploying with the attacker and ignoring the systematic violations of human rights in the occupied territories.
The UN speaker is not new to political and media pressures, but the attack of the last few days can represent a dangerous escalation: hitting his personal figure is a clear signal towards anyone who tries to question the impunity of the powers involved.
Who are the independent special speakers
They are independent experts appointed in the so -called special mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and in charge of monitoring and reporting on issues relating to human rights in the world. They operate on a personal capacity, are not UN officials and do not receive any remuneration for their work.
They regularly report to the Council based in Geneva and the UN General Assembly in New York.
In addition to the mandate on the occupied Palestinian territories, there are sent to monitor human rights in countries such as Iran, People’s Democratic Republic of Korea And Afghanistan. In total, there are 46 thematic mandates And 14 Mandates on specific countries.
While the UN asks for the revocation of the US sanctions against the special speaker Francesca Albanese, half a world of mobility.
The letter open to Mattarella
This direct attack on Francesca Albanese has prompted many people in the Italian cultural world to ask the government to take a position in her defense.
On the initiative of Andrea Colamedici and Maura Gancitano di Tlon a letter was written to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, to the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and to the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who for now brings signatures of actors, musicians, TV presenters, by Marracash, Francesca Michielin, Cosmo and the representative of the list passing through Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Golino, Valentia Golino, Luca Golino, Luca Golino. Zingaretti, Valerio Mastandrea and Claudio Santamaria, and personality such as the art historian Tomaso Montanari and the writer Lidia Ravera.
“We are butterflies”, the petition to give Francesca Albanese the Nobel Peace Nobel
From Patrick Zaky to Alessandro Barbero, from Nico Piro to Nancy Porsia, as well as a flood of ordinary citizens: when we write, almost 50 thousand signatures for the petition arrived “We are butterflies!”- “We are butterflies!”(title that takes up a phrase from a book by Francesca Albanese), to ask for the UN rapporteur is appointed to Nobel Peace Prize.
Francesca Albanesethe UN special speaker for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, has become the official target of the Israeli mud machine, also through paid advertisements on Google Ads and defamatory pages created by the Israeli government and of the US diplomatic retaliation with Trump who announces, for the mouth of the Secretary of State Rubio, individual sanctions against the jurist – reads the Petition on Change.
The Albanian is “guilty” of having put in light, with her relationships as the special speaker of the United Nations on the occupied Palestinian territories, the crimes of the Netanyahu government and the business of the genocide, indicating the names of the companies with precision and method, among these Amazon, Alphabet, Palantir, which profit from the Israeli war economy.
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In all this, while an Italian town, invested with an international mandate, is attacked and threatened, the government is silent and continues its complicity with Israel.
In the silence of the institutions, however addressing them to assume the responsibilities that derive from their role, we must all be the media escort of Francesca Albanese and international law continuously violated by Israel and the United States.
Signs the petition here.
