Ariano Irpino, Italy • Francesca Albanese can’t buy a cup of coffee in her hometown. Every time she walks into a cafe, someone rushes to pay her check. Thirty years ago, when she graduated from high school, she couldn’t wait to move away. Today, drivers stop to reach out their hands to greet her. A homemade banner hung on a highway overpass says “Grazie, Francesca!” Albanese became a hometown hero after the White House branded her an enemy, which it did because of her work, over the past three years, as the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian...