Monday, September 16, 2024
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Zoom Webinar.
About the Event
The Center for Middle East Studies will host Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for a talk titled, “Anatomy of a Genocide: “A Failure of the International System?”
Francesca Albanese is a lawyer who specializes in human rights. She is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, as well as a Senior Advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement for a think-tank, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD). She has widely published on the legal situation in Israel, occupied Palestinian territory and Palestinian refugees, and she regularly teaches and lectures on international law and forced displacement at universities in Europe and the Arab region. Ms. Albanese has also worked as a human rights expert for the United Nations, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees. In May 2022, Ms. Albanese was appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. She is the first woman to hold this position.