Professor Bennoune addresses relationship of climate change to cultural heritage

  • by Carla Meyer

Professor Karima Bennoune, U.N. special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, delivered a keynote address on the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage last week in San Francisco at Climate Heritage Mobilization, an event linked to Gov. Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit.

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. 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, available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company. In October 2015, she was appointed U.N. special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. She was presented with the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award by IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.