Francesca Albanese

Look, there is no softer pillow than a light conscience.

I'm so happy I have an opportunity to do the right thing instead of sitting in the margins and letting history be written by others.

I've never been particularly, you know, I've never been an activist, so I've never been particularly courageous, particularly generous other than with my, in my own environment.

This time I'm called

upon doing something that is bigger than me, is bigger than anything I've ever imagined doing in my life.

And I take it humbly and I say, I'll do my best.

And my sense of duty becomes only stronger with every day of unaddressed violence, of every day of non-delivered justice.

Look, it's not the international law that is dead.

International law is being violated by those who should apply it.

But those who pay the price is citizens, is entire communities.

And this is why it's time to push for a convergence.

I often say those who have nothing to gain from the collapse of the rule of law system, those who have nothing to gain from a return of fascism,

Ordinary citizens, wherever they are, on the left or right of the political spectrum, those who do not own the extractive industry, the military industry, the big tech, financial powers and banks and main financial assets.

which means the majority of the world, what do we have to gain from condoning this lawlessness?

Why would we let politicians run away with crimes instead of holding them accountable?

If all of us wake up from this sort of slumber and realize that if they go after the defenders and

Ordinary citizens have no means left.

If the decisions of the International Criminal Justice or the arrest warrants of the ICC become dead letter, what is the guarantee we have against the abuse of power?

Let me tell you in one word, none.

This is the time to educate.