Professor Bennoune Speaks at 'Linking the Security of Women and the Security of States'

Professor Karima Bennoune spoke at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs as part of "Linking the Security of Women and the Security of States" on April 27. 

Hosted by Futures Without Violence and Open Square, the event brought together experts and leaders from a wide array of sectors to discuss the relationship between violent extremism and gender-based violence, as well as related topics. Professor Bennoune spoke on extremist violence against women and the strategies women's rights defenders have used to combat it, as well as how the international community should support those activists, to an audience of high-level figures from government, media, and civil society.

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. She recently 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.