Francesca Albanese

In times of systematic intimidation, complicit silences and institutional cowardice, the joint decision by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of Antwerp and Ghent University to award an honorary doctorate to Francesca Albanese is not a routine academic gesture. It…

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, has issued one of the most severe and painful denunciations in recent years: the real number of deaths in Gaza could exceed 680,000 people, more than ten times the officially…

The decision by Donald Trump’s administration to sanction Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is not only an unprecedented political reprisal against an international official. It is also a direct attempt to delegitimize a…