Mireille Fanon Mendès-France Explained

Mireille Fanon Mendès-France
Birth Date:[1]
Occupation:jurist,[2] activist
Birth Place:France
Mother:Michèle Weyer
Father:Frantz Fanon

Mireille Fanon Mendès-France also Mireille Fanon-Mendès France (born in 1948) is a French jurist and anti-racist activist.

Career

Fanon Mendès-France has been teaching at Paris Descartes University. She was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in international law and conflict resolution. She has also worked for UNESCO and the French National Assembly.

Together with Gilles Devers, she filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice on behalf of groups representing victims of Israeli attacks during the 2008-2009 Gaza War.[3]

Since 2011, she has been an expert for the United Nations Working Group on People of African Descent.[4] She was the president of that UN Working Group from 2014 to 2016.[5] [6] [7] [8]

Views

In an interview at the Council of Europe in 2020, Fanon Mendès-France called for a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has to be recast according to Fanon Mendès-France to no longer reflect a Eurocentric version of the definition of human beings.Fanon Mendès-France acted as board member of the Jewish French Union for Peace and expressed solidarity and support for State of Palestine.[9]

Family History

Fanon Mendès-France is the daughter of the French political philosopher Frantz Fanon. She is a scholar of decolonisation and a member of the Frantz Fanon Foundation.[10] According to Fanon Mendès-France, her father Frantz Fanon was "blacklisted" in France, where she found it difficult to organize events to honor his memory.[11]

Fanon Mendès-France is the widow of Bernard Mendès-France, the son of the French politician Pierre Mendès France, who served as president of the Council of Ministers under the French Fourth Republic.

References

  1. Web site: Mireille Fanon Mendes-France.
  2. 18 February 2020 . Mireille Fanon-Mendès France – Fondation Frantz Fanon . Motion picture . 16 August 2022. Council of Europe.
  3. Book: Meloni . Chantal . Tognoni . Gianni . Is There a Court for Gaza?: A Test Bench for International Justice . 13 March 2012 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-90-6704-820-0 . 14 November 2023 . en.
  4. Web site: Howard Center and ACLU Demand Michigan Prisons End Unlawful Ban of Iconic Book on Structural Racism . Cornelius. Misha . 1 July 2019 . Howard University. 15 August 2022.
  5. News: 5 December 2014 . Eric Garner death: UN fears over no-charge jury decisions. BBC . 15 August 2021.
  6. News: Fideles . Nina . Pina . Rute . Mireille Fanon: If we want to change the world, it must be through anti-racism . 28 June 2020 . Brasil de Fato . November 23, 2018.
  7. Web site: Mireille Fanon-Mendesfrance . Africultures . 28 June 2020.
  8. Web site: UN expert group on people of African descent on fact-finding mission to Italy . OHCHR . 28 June 2020.
  9. News: Nieuwhof . Adri . 24 April 2011 . Interview: daughter of Frantz Fanon on Palestine solidarity . The Electronic Intifada . 16 August 2022.
  10. Web site: Critical voices in critical times: Fanon, race & politics - an interview with Mireille Fanon-Mendès France (part 2 of 2) . Herrara . Linda . 3 October 2017. openDemocracy . openDemocracy. 15 August 2022 .
  11. 16 December 2011 . Transcolonial Fanon Conference: Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. Motion picture . 16 August 2022. Columbia University.

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