Professor Bennoune Interviewed on UNESCO Podcast

Professor Karima Bennoune was interviewed on Talking About Culture, a podcast produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In the episode, she talked about the definition of cultural rights, their basis in international law, and their relationship to women’s rights. She explained that cultural rights are not the same thing as cultural relativism, and that as a part of the universal human rights framework, they do not justify discrimination or violence or violations of other human rights.

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.