Special rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions can be subject of proceedings at the International Court of Justice

A U.N. special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, with Washington

The United Nations is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the

The Trump administration has announced it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories.

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations' special rapporteur, has accused Israel of waging a "genocidal campaign" in Gaza.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, in a bizarre through-the-looking-glass statement, every word of which is either a lie or used to mean the opposite of what it means in ordinary language.

What Albanese’s report tries to do is not merely shame Israel’s genocide partners but to tell us that we now have a frame of reference.