Francesco Martone Associate

Our people — Associate

Francesco Martone (May 10, 1961) is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, and a long-term activist involved in struggles for peace, human rights and climate justice.

Francesco is chair of the Judges’ Assembly of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and a founding member of Greenpeace Italy, and co-founder of the arts and activism platform A4C- Artsforthecommons. He was a member of the Italian Senate with the Greens and then with the European Left for 7 years. In 2015 he co-founded In Difesa Di an Italian network in support of human rights defenders that he coordinated until 2020. He is based in Italy and Ecuador. He has worked as policy advisor on climate and indigenous peoples’ rights for Forest Peoples Programme and the Tebtebba Foundation.

Latest work

Italy, democracy and COVID-19

COVID-19

The crisis triggered by COVID-19 is challenging the very meaning of coexistence and cohabitation and redesigning the boundaries of public space in an absolutely unprecedented way, with unpredictable results.

Article by

Francesco Martone

Publication date: 14 April 2020
The Amazon and the hell of power

“Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers, paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier: A “Tower Inferno”. A hell of power. This we might say today, as in past occasions, of the Amazon, an image of fire, destruction and resistance, that has been cyclically appearing and reappearing in the media, and that periodically unleashes indignation and helplessness, as if the Amazon were some sort of symbol of past and future apocalypse.

Article by

Francesco Martone

Publication date: 3 October 2019
« Shrinking space » ou le « Rétrécissement de l'espace » démocratique Document cadre

Shrinking Space
Partout dans le monde, au sein d'États, démocratiques comme non démocratiques, nombre de militants et d’organisations mobilisés pour la justice sociale évoluent dans un environnement de plus en plus répressif et sécuritaire, et subissent des attaques sans précédent menaçant leur légitimité et leur sécurité. Tentatives répétées pour réduire au silence le mouvement Black Lives Matter, assassinat de Berta Cáceres, criminalisation de la campagne Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanctions (BDS) ou encore recours à des formes de micro-tyrannie telle que la récente loi sur la Régulation des Activités Bénévoles au Bangladesh ; il va sans dire que le militantisme, tant individuel que collectif, se heurte au ressac des États, des entreprises et de l'extrême droite.
Paper by

Ben Hayes

Frank Barat

Isabelle Geuskens

Nick Buxton

Fiona Dove

Francesco Martone

Hannah Twomey

Semanur Karaman
Publication date: 17 October 2017