Torture and Genocide: A Webinar with the UNSR Francesca Albanese

A Discussion of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Francesca Albanese's recent report on Torture and Genocide which "examines the use of torture – the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, physical or mental, for purposes including intimidation and coercion or for any reason based on discrimination – by Israel against Palestinians as a group, and finds that torture is a structural feature of the ongoing genocide and broader settler colonial apartheid."

The report is available here

Speakers

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, and author of When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine (2026).

Professor Lutz Oette, SOAS and author of The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law (2024).

Dr. Pau-Perez Sales, psychiatrist and author of Torturing Environments: Psychological, Clinical and Legal Dimensions (2026) and Psychological Torture: Definition, Evaluation and Measurement (2016).

Moderator

Dr. Nimer Sultany, chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS and editor in chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law.

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