Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
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Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (born 15 May 1966) is an Israeli legal scholar who is known for her work on family law, feminist jurisprudence, and women's rights in international law. She is the vice chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.[1] She is Professor of Law at the Bar-Ilan University and is the founding Director of the Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women.
Career
Halperin-Kaddari earned a Doctor of Juridical Science at Yale Law School in the United States in 1993. She is Professor of Law at the Bar-Ilan University; in 2001 she founded the Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, a social-legal centre that works to advance gender justice, and she has served as the centre's director since its establishment.[2]
She was elected to a four-year term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2006 and was vice chairperson of the committee from 2009 to 2010. She was reelected to her second term on the committee in 2010 and to her third term in 2014. She was again elected vice chairperson of the committee in 2017.[3][4]
She received the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State in 2007 for her work on international women's rights.[5]
Selected works
- Women in Israel: A State of Their Own, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004
References
- ^ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- ^ Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- ^ Human Rights in Practice Series for International Women’s Day: Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
- ^ Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari Elected for Third Time to Prestigious UN Committee, BIU, 2014-07-02
- ^ International Women's Issues Archives, United States Department of State