Event with Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur

When: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Where: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS

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We are delighted to invite Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, to speak on the Genocide in Gaza and International Law. The event will be moderated by Professor Neve Gordon and will be followed by a Q&A from the audience.

This event is co-sponsored by:

• The International State Crime Initiative, School of Law
• Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, School of Law
• Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, School of Law
• Borderlines research group, School of Business and Management
• Research Group on International Political Sociology, SPIR
• Centre for the Study of Race, Class & Empire, SPIR
• Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production, CLaSP
• City Centre, Geography
• Centre for Film and Ethics, CfFE- Department of Film
• South Asia Forum, SAF
• QMUCU

Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer, specialised in human rights and the Middle East. Since May 2022, she has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. An affiliate scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Albanese is the author of prestigious publications, including Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), considered by many as a landmark in the literature on the subject, as well as other academic works on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine and Palestinian refugees. Since 2018, Albanese has taught and lectured at various universities in Europe and the Middle East. She is also responsible for the research and legal assistance program on migration and asylum seekers in the Arab world for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), and is a co-founder of the Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP), a coalition of prominent regional and international experts and scholars engaged in the issue of Israel/Palestine. Prior to her scholarly engagement, she has worked with international organizations, including the United Nations (2003-2012) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As Special Rapporteur, she has published numerous legal opinions and four major reports: on self-determination (2022), deprivation of liberty (2023), violated childhood (2023), and genocide (2024).