Professor Bennoune Delivers Keynote Address at Human Rights Law Section Learning Day

Professor Karima Bennoune delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Human Rights Law Section Learning Day held in Ottawa, Canada on December 13. She talked about the threats posed by fundamentalism and extremism and how they can be addressed from a human rights perspective.

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