{"id":298455,"date":"2025-07-14T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=298455"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:20:35","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-on-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/us-imposes-sanctions-on-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese\/","title":{"rendered":"US Imposes Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_298456\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UN-Special-Rapporteur-for-the-occupied-Palestinian-territories-Francesca-Albanese.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298456\" class=\"wp-image-298456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UN-Special-Rapporteur-for-the-occupied-Palestinian-territories-Francesca-Albanese.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UN-Special-Rapporteur-for-the-occupied-Palestinian-territories-Francesca-Albanese.webp 946w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UN-Special-Rapporteur-for-the-occupied-Palestinian-territories-Francesca-Albanese-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UN-Special-Rapporteur-for-the-occupied-Palestinian-territories-Francesca-Albanese-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-298456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese during a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 Feb 2025.<br \/>\u00a9 2025 Ritzau Scanpix\/Sipa USA via AP Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>10 Jul 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Yesterday, the US government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/07\/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons\/\" class=\"ext\" title=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/07\/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-extlink=\"\">imposed sanctions<\/a> on UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 Francesca Albanese under an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/02\/07\/us-trump-authorizes-international-criminal-court-sanctions\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/02\/07\/us-trump-authorizes-international-criminal-court-sanctions\" >executive order<\/a> issued by President Donald Trump in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the following quote can be attributed to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/elizabeth-evenson\" >Liz Evenson<\/a>, international justice director at Human Rights Watch:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US government\u2019s decision to sanction Albanese for seeking justice through the International Criminal Court is actually all about silencing a UN expert for doing her job, speaking truth about Israeli violations against Palestinians and calling on governments and corporations not to be complicit. The United States is working to dismantle the norms and institutions on which survivors of grave abuses rely. UN and ICC member countries should strongly resist the US government\u2019s shameless efforts to block justice for the world\u2019s worst crimes and condemn the outrageous sanctions on Albanese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/07\/10\/us-imposes-sanctions-on-un-special-rapporteur\" >Go to Original &#8211; hrw.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Jul 2025\u00a0&#8211; Yesterday, the US government imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, under an executive order issued by Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":298456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[3287,3143,2642,2009,1854,2242,3395,87,865,1966,88,715,427,2418,2159,923,249,3220,1949,2073,124,70,965],"class_list":["post-298455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-anti-zionism","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-anti-war","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-famine","tag-francesca-albanese","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hunger","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-rights","tag-rogue-states","tag-sanctions","tag-trump","tag-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-unrwa","tag-un-human-rights-council","tag-unhchr","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298457,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298455\/revisions\/298457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}