Ending Gender Apartheid: Lessons from Afghanistan
Professor Karima Bennoune
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Monday, October 14, 2024 @4pm
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center
Free and open to the public with a reception to follow
About the Speaker:
Karima Bennoune is the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She specializes in public international law and international human rights law, including issues related to culture, extremism and terrorism, and women’s human rights.
Bennoune served as the UN special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015 to 2021. She was also appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, which concerned intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites in Mali.
In September 2023, she addressed the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan. In December 2023, she traveled to South Africa with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to participate with her and Nelson Mandela’s widow, the prominent human rights advocate Graça Machel, in a panel following Malala’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. The Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law presented her with its 2024 Prominent Woman in International Law Award.
Since 2018, she has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. A former legal adviser for Amnesty International, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world.
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