As Israel intensifies its siege of Gaza, independent UN experts who speak out against its actions face political retaliation.
The U.S. sanctioned Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, following her recent report exposing global corporations profiting from the ongoing genocide.
One of her predecessors, Richard Falk, defended the work of special rapporteurs as a “central source of truth-telling to the criminality of Israel’s behaviour”.
Fellow Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri warns this is part of a broader trend to stifle the truth, expressing his disappointment in the UN leadership and its Secretary-General for failing to support independent experts, and being “half a step behind” instead of leading while the “fastest starvation campaign in modern history” unfolds.
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