Francesca Paola Albanese is an Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights. She has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories since 1 May 2022; initi
Albanese at the Hague Group emergency meeting in Bogotá, July 2025
Albanese, Palestinian diplomat Riyad Mansour, and Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the Emergency Conference on Palestine in Bogota, Colombia, 16 July 2025
Albanese with members of the Portuguese Parliament on 27 July 2024
Ariano Irpino, known until 1930 as Ariano di Puglia, and historically and in the local dialect simply as Ariano, is an Italian commune with a population of 20,706 inhabitants located in the Province o
Francesca Albanese
…advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement at the non-profit Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development. Francesca Paola Albanese was born in Ariano Irpino, a town in the Campania region of southern Italy, on 30 March 1977. Albanese holds a full Italian law degree (LMG with honours from the University of…
Panorama of Ariano Irpino
A glimpse of the historic city (view from the Castello hill)
A view of Ariano Castle in winter
A 1703 print; at the time, the city was simply called Ariano, and its coat of arms bore only the letter A