UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese at a press conference during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on March 27, 2024.Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images

Calls mount for Canada to bar UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese over antisemitic remarks

Albanese is scheduled to speak at the University of Toronto on Nov. 7 about international law and genocide

by · National Post

The Canadian government is facing demands to bar Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur overseeing the Palestinian territories, from the country, following comments she made that have been called antisemitic.

Albanese is scheduled to speak at the University of Toronto on Nov. 7 about international law and genocide.

Her official title is “special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” Special rapporteurs are appointed by the Human Rights Council of the UN as independent experts who report back to the international organization. Albanese’s tenure has been controversial.