Professor Bennoune contributes to U.N. Women report on sexual harassment

Professor Karima Bennoune, U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, contributed to a new U.N. Women report on sexual harassment titled “What Will It Take? Promoting Cultural Change to End Sexual Harassment.”

On Oct. 22, Bennoune will present her new report on access to public space and the enjoyment of human rights at the U.N. General  Assembly. UC Davis School of Law students Justine Massey ’20 and Vanessa Hofman ’21 will accompany Bennoune on the trip.

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.