🇵🇸 UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under international law because Gaza is a territory which it occupies. Her comments came in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia.

Chapter VII: Article 51 — Charter of the United Nations — Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs — Codification Division Publications –

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15/11/2023

🇵🇸 Women in Gaza struggle without food and water | Al Jazeera

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, joins Al Jazeera live from Cascais in Portugal to discuss the struggle of women in Gaza.

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22/11/2023

🇵🇸 Francesca Albanese: Western media is living in an alternate reality | The Listening Post

In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. She joins us for an interview on #terminology, #context and the blindspots of mainstream media.

Feature contributors: Francesca Albanese - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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26/11/2023

🇵🇸 Special Rapporteur Says Israel’s Unlawful Carceral Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Are Tantamount to International Crimes and Have Turned it into an Open-Air Prison | OHCHR - July 2023

Currently, there were 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including 160 children, and approximately 1,100 of them were detained without charge or trial.  Her report did not condone any acts of violence committed by Palestinians, while living under an unlawful occupation or in their pursuit to end it. 

However, it must be acknowledged that most Palestinians had been convicted through a series of violations of international law, such as discrimination, persecution, and breaches of due process and for ordinary acts of life and in the exercise of legitimate civil and political rights. 

A widespread and systematic arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Palestinians was a structural component of their subjugation. 

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

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🇵🇸 Interview with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur | PSC

Palestine Solidarity Campaingn spoke with Francesca Albanese about Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including children, and how imprisonment is used as a tool of #repression against Palestinians.

Francesca Albanese is UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. She has published widely on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine; her latest book, Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive legal analysis of the situation of Palestinian refugees from its origins to modern-day reality.

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22/12/2023