The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

Alvina Hoffmann at Aeon: On 9 July 2025, the government of the United States imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine. Earlier in the spring, Albanese had written confidential letters to US companies, warning that she would name them in her forthcoming UN repor.