Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize for 2025

Written By David Gray

Is awarded Francesca Albanese the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories as the person who in accordance with Alfred Nobel’s will has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations and for the abolition or reduction of standing armies as well as for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. She has confronted Israel’s systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity in a truly global outreach. Further, she has brought governments, international organizations and people’s groups together to underline the responsibility of the world at large to act and to stop arming, enabling, and profiting from Israel’s ongoing criminal actions.

But first of all, Albanese has lifted up the very core of the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide for all member states to act to prevent and punish those who are perpetrating, complicit in and profiting from these atrocious crimes, and not merely to passively await a possible future verdict in international courts. Francesca Albanese has proven herself to be an exceptionally worthy and true “Champion for Peace.”

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