Manifesto

Francesco Martone

Francesco Martone is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and co-founder of the artistic research platform A4CArtsforthecommons. Currently an associate of the Transnational Institute and founder of the Italian network in support of human rights defenders In Difesa Di, he has been working on Indigenous peoples’ rights, climate justice, support to communities resisting extractivism and development projects, forests, environmental defenders and human rights for the last 35 years. He has been chair of the Board of Greenpeace Italy, Senator of the Italian Republic (2001-2008), and advisor on climate and indigenous peoples’ rights for Forest Peoples’ Programme and the Tebtebba Foundation.