Professor Bennoune presents report to U.N. General Assembly, brings 2 students

On Oct. 22, Professor Karima Bennoune, the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, presented her new report, on the importance of public spaces for the exercise of cultural rights, to the U.N. General Assembly. Read the report

Justine Massey ’20 and Vanessa Hofman ’21 joined Bennoune on the trip.

Last week, Bennoune spoke at the Frankfurt Book Fair, alongside Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide.

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.