Professor Bennoune addresses human-rights topics in several events

Professor Karima Bennoune was the featured speaker in early February at an event by the Artists at Risk Connection. “Artists are Human Rights Defenders: Launching ARC’s New Safety Guide for Artists” was the focus of the online panel discussion.

Also this month, in a webinar presented by the U.N. Human Rights Office and Freemuse, she participated in the discussion on “Human Rights, Art and Protest: Voice and Expression in U.S. Minority Communities in the Time of the Pandemic.”

She also recently joined other scholars, international human rights and United Nations experts in a workshop presented by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program. The discussion focused on indirect discrimination (or practices with discriminatory impact) in regard to measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Karima Bennoune, Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, 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. In 2014, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton & Company). In October 2015, she was appointed U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.  She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.