Professor Bennoune, other U.N. human rights experts call attention to treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in China

Professor Karima Bennoune in late March joined other U.N. human rights experts in raising serious concerns about the alleged detention and forced labor of Muslim Uyghurs in China.

The U.N.’s Working Group on Business and Human Rights called for unhindered access to the country to conduct fact-finding missions and urged  global and domestic companies to closely scrutinize their supply chains.

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.