Professor Bennoune participates in United Cities and Local Governments event

On July 10, Professor and U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune took part in the virtual Local and Regional Governments Day event “Accelerating transformation from the ground up in a post-COVID-19 era.” The event was hosted by United Cities and Local Governments in the frame of the U.N. High Level Political Forum.

Bennoune spoke during the “Looking ahead and future perspectives” section of the event, along with mayors and deputy mayors from Canada, Spain, Italy and Sierra Leone.

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.