Rebecca Adami award winner of the 2022 Bertha Lutz Prize
Rebecca Adami, associate professor at the Department of Education, is award winner of the 2022 Bertha Lutz Prize, by the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association. The Bertha Lutz Prize is awarded for highest quality public writing and research on women in diplomacy.
Jury motivation
Adami has completed several renowned international book projects and contributed to numerous volumes on human rights studies focusing on women in the history of the United Nations.
She is co-editor of the volume Women and the UN (2022) published open access by Routledge through the Knowledge Unlatched Initiative, which brings together leading scholars and practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies. This new research contributes with a new historical narrative on women and the drafting of key human rights treaties, from the UN Charter to the Security Council Resolution 1325.
The work of Bertha Lutz on the UN Charter is dealt with in Adami’s earlier monograph Women and the UDHR from 2019. Based on the findings in the book, a UN photo exhibit at the UN Headquarters in New York officially honored Bertha Lutz and other women delegates from India, Pakistan and more at the 70-year celebration of the UDHR. The exhibit was opened by the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres and the President of the General Assembly María Fernandez Spinosa.
On receiving the award Adami said:
–Bertha Lutz and her feminist Latin American colleagues at the UN, Minerva Bernardino from the Dominican Republic and Isabel P. de Vidal from Urugay have, ever since I encountered their names in the UN archives during the writing of Women and the UDHR, served as a source of inspiration whenever women’s international human rights are questioned or challenged today.
Rebbeca Adami, Associate Professor
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Last updated: December 2, 2022
Source: IPD