Francesco Martone

Francesco Martone (Italy-Ecuador) is the founder and spokesperson of In Difesa Di per I diritti umani e chi li difende (an Italian NGO network in support of human rights defenders) and an associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He is a judge of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature, and chairs the Tribunal’s Assembly of Judges. He served as senator of the Italian Senate with the Greens and then with the European Left for 7 years as member of the Senate’s Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Committees focusing on human rights, peace, development, international financial institutions, globalization, and disarmament. Formerly Board Chair for Greenpeace Italy, after having worked for various years in Greenpeace International, he is now one of Greenpeace Italy founding members. He founded a campaign against the World Bank in Italy, and has participated in several countersummits in occasion of G7, UN, World Bank, IMF and WTO meetings, and in various World Social Forum activities. He is also juror of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal. In the past decade he has been advising indigenous peoples organizations on issues related to forests, climate change, climate finance and indigenous peoples’ rights. His current areas of interest are: critique to the Anthropocene, resistance to extractivism, rights of nature, indigenous peoples rights, and land defenders. He is the co-founder of A4C-Artsforthecommons, a platform for artists and activists working on issues related to migration, social justice and rights of nature.