Activating Palestine’s UNESCO Membership

Valentina Azarova is a researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of movement lawyering, transformative justice, and international law. They hold a PhD in law from the University of Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Rights. Valentina co-founded and co-directed the Al-Quds Bard Human Rights Program at Al-Quds University (2009–2013), taught on the MA in Human Rights and Democracy at Birzeit University (2013–2015), and has since held research and teaching posts at institutions in Lebanon, Turkey, Germany, and the United Kingdom. They are co-founder of the Emergent Justice Collective and co-convenor of the Research Area on Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice at the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research. Their research and publications focus on international law in the Palestine context, the laws of violence, and legal mobilization in social justice struggles.