Professor Bennoune Honored by International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law
Professor Karima Bennoune is being honored by the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law (IANGEL) with the Rights and Leadership Award for 2016. The award celebrates Professor Bennoune's lifelong commitment to women's human rights, her work in improving the understanding of fundamentalist ideologies, her support for change agents working to lay a foundation for long-term peace, and related efforts.
Professor Bennoune has been invited to receive the award and to deliver the keynote address at the IANGEL 3rd Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco on April 12. More information on the event, including how to purchase tickets, may be accessed via the link below.
Karima Bennoune is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. She recently was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, now available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company. In October 2015, she was appointed UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.