Special rapporteur is the title that the United Nations gives to independent human rights experts called to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective.
Christof Heyns, then-special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions and Maina Kìai, then-special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2015).
The meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council take place in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations, Geneva.
Francesca Albanese
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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
United Nations special rapporteur
…on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 1993 (CHR res. 1993/2A - until the end of the Israeli occupation) Francesca P. Albanese (Italy), appointed at HRC49 (March 2022) HRC67 (March 2028) Stanley Michael Lynk (Canada), 2016–2022 Makarim Wibisono (Indonesia), 2014–2016 Richard…
Albanese at the Hague Group emergency meeting in Bogotá, July 2025
Albanese in July 2024
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