UN SR OPT Francesca Albanese and Climate Justice Activist Greta Thunberg conversed on the interconnectedness between International Law, Climate Justice, and Palestine's past and current realities.
I am proud to announce that after meticulous communication, organization, and planning, the Students for Palestine (Oslo) team successfully hosted a panel discussion and Q&A session. The event, held on Monday, February 10th, 2025, at the University of Oslo, featured the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, and climate justice activist Greta Thunberg. The session garnered significant interest from students and academics as the panelists discussed the correlation between International Law, Climate Justice, and Palestine's past and current realities.
This marked the second major event where I led the planning and organization, showcasing the culmination of my outreach and communication skills honed through internships. Managing a panel discussion is no small feat, yet I successfully applied my teamwork abilities, my social media managerial capacities, and my communication skills, to facilitate and ensure the event's success.
In 2023, I organized a panel discussion on migration ["What is Freedom? Who is Free?"] at Leiden University, emphasizing grassroots movements and the cruciality of support mechanisms for refugees. Fast forward to 2025, the focus shifted to Palestine's relationship with International Law and Climate Justice in an event titled "Against a Lawless World" at Oslo University.
Despite the apparent differences between the two panels, I wish to depict the correlation between them in the words of Greta Thunberg herself:
"Climate activists and human rights activists are fighting against the same systems. Systems that are built on occupation, on colonialism and imperialism, and on the extraction of resources of the so-called 'Global South'. It seems people are so scared of being criticized, of being scrutinized, of being silenced, that it weighs more than saying no to genocide or war.... All of these movements have to join forces because we are much stronger together."
The interconnectedness of climate justice, peace movements, and global liberation movements emphasizes the need for collective action against oppressive systems.
More information on the event can be found on this post, and additional content designed, edited, and published by me on the Studenter for Palestina instagram.