UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN Human Rights Council mandate — independent expert · Geneva / field missions · est. 1993 (mandate)
Reports to the UN Human Rights Council on human-rights conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including genocide-risk analyses cited in this record.
United Nations regular budget (mandate-holder fees and mission costs).
Appointed by the Human Rights Council; operates independently of the Secretariat on thematic mandates.
UN-mandated expert reporting with due-process standards, but findings are non-binding and Israel and allies have disputed the mandate-holder's impartiality.
Not a membership body. The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council from a list of candidates, for a fixed mandate period. The rapporteur speaks in a personal capacity; there is no dues-paying membership that elects the office-holder.
Leadership & members
- Francesca AlbaneseSpecial Rapporteur (2022–)
Named individuals reflect leadership at the time of writing; linked names have individual profiles in this record. See membership & leadership above for how they are selected.
People profiled in this record
On the record
Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this body or its officials.
Case: gaza palestinians 2023 →“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of genocide by Israel is met.”
Cases in this record
Sources & disclosures
- Mandate & reports — OHCHR