Ruth Halperin-Kaddari

Professor
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
רות הלפרין-קדרי
Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Assumed office
2006
Personal details
Born (1966-05-15)May 15, 1966
Nationality Israel
Alma mater Yale Law School
Occupation Law professor
Awards International Women of Courage Award

Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (born 15 May 1966; Hebrew: רות הלפרין-קדרי‎) is an Israeli legal scholar and international women's rights advocate who is known for her work on family law, feminist legal theory, women's rights in international law, and women and religion. She is vice chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and has served on the committee since 2006.[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.

She was one of the first recipients of the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award for her work on international women's rights in 2007. She was ranked as one of the world's hundred most influential people in gender equality policy in 2018.[2]

Career

Director Andrea Bottner (left) of the U.S. State Department presenting the Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award to Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (right)

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.[3][4][5]

United Nations roles

She was elected by the state parties 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. At the time of her election she was the committee's youngest member. 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.[6][7] On the committee she served for over a decade alongside the former French Minister of Gender Equality Nicole Ameline and the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and UN Under-Secretary-General Pramila Patten.

In 2018 she co-authored a UN report which concluded that the lack of provision for abortion in Northern Ireland is a form of violence against women.[8]

Honours

She received the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award in 2007 for her work on international women's rights.[9] She received the Rappaport Prize for Women Generating Change in 2016.[10] She was ranked as one of the world's hundred most influential people in gender equality policy in 2018.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  2. 1 2 Gender Equality Top 100: The Most Influential People In Global Policy
  3. ↑ Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  4. ↑ Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University
  5. ↑ Home Truths: A Religious Feminist Trailblazer Tells It Like It Is, Haaretz
  6. ↑ Human Rights in Practice Series for International Women’s Day: Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
  7. ↑ Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari Elected for Third Time to Prestigious UN Committee, BIU, 2014-07-02
  8. ↑ Northern Ireland abortion laws violate women's rights, UN body says, Reuters
  9. ↑ International Women's Issues Archives, United States Department of State
  10. ↑ Rappaport Prize for Women Generating Change
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