Karima Bennoune: Cultural heritage is a human rights issue
“Cultural heritage is significant in the present, both as a message from the past and as a pathway to the future. Viewed from a human rights perspective, it is important not only in itself, but also in relation to its human dimension,” Karima Bennoune says. As UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, she decided to address the intentional destruction of cultural heritage as an urgent priority. Her first thematic report to the UN General Assembly, which she presents to the United Nations General Assembly, on 27 October 2016, is devoted to that issue. Click here for derails.
Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California–Davis School of Law. She was appointed UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights in October 2015.
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