Anne Bayefsky

{{Short description|Canadian academic and activist (born 1953)}} '''Anne Bayefsky''', born 8 November 1953, is a lawyer, scholar and activist who currently directs the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. She is a Fox News opinion writer,<ref name=Fox>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-06|title=Anne Bayefsky|url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/b/anne-bayefsky|access-date=2021-06-06|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}</ref> and an author and editor on several websites.

==Career== Bayefsky holds a B.A., M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto and an M.Litt. from Oxford University. She has served as the director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorku.ca/crs/ |title=Centre for Refugee Studies |publisher=Yorku.ca |accessdate=2012-07-18}}</ref> project director for the university's Human Rights Treaty Study, member of Canadian delegations to international meetings, such as the UN Human Rights Commissions in 1993–1996, the UN General Assembly in 1984 and 1989, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, and a delegate of the American Society of International Law to the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/ |title=Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995 |publisher=Un.org |accessdate=2012-07-18}}</ref> She has previously been a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, an American conservative think tank.<ref name=hudson>[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=BayeAnne Anne Bayefsky] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219041044/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=BayeAnne |date=2006-02-19 }}, Hudson Institute</ref>

Currently, she is director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights,<ref name=Fox/> the senior editor and a board member for the 'Human Rights Voices' online news platform,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://humanrightsvoices.org/site/about/who/|title=About Human Rights Voices – Who We Are |website=humanrightsvoices.org}}</ref> and an author at 'Eye on the UN', which is run by the Hudson Institute and the Touro College Institute for Human Rights.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eyeontheun.org/ |title=eyeontheun.org |publisher=eyeontheun.org |accessdate=2012-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703045556/http://www.eyeontheun.org/ |archive-date=2012-07-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She also sits on the Board of Advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a non-profit thinktank focusing on issues of United States and Israel's national security.<ref name=jinsa>[http://www.jinsa.org/node/536 Prof. Anne Bayefsky], Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs</ref> Her legal expertise is in international, human rights, women's rights, and United Nations law, and covers four decades, beginning at the University of Ottawa in 1981.<ref name="ottawa">{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25658852|title=Remarks by Louis Henkin|author1=Henkin, Louis|author2=An-Na'im, Abdullahi|author3=Schneider, Mark L.|year=1994|journal=Proceedings of the Asil Annual Meeting|volume=88|pages=419–428|doi=10.1017/S0272503700082756 |jstor=25658852 |s2cid=246003101 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Bayefsky has organized and run conferences and meetings in the fields of international relations and human rights for non-profits.<ref> [https://www.camera.org/article/a-conference-fighting-the-durban-deceit/ Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) Sept. 20, 2021] Retrieved 2021-09-21. ProPublica, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Ken Schwencke, Brandon Roberts, Alec Glassford (9 May 2013). Retrieved 2020-12-26.</ref>

==Views== Bayefsky has argued that Ontario's policy of fully funding Roman Catholic schools, while denying full funding to other religious schools, is discriminatory.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/un-says-funding-of-catholic-schools-discriminatory-1.175008|title=UN says funding of Catholic schools discriminatory|date=1999-11-05|work=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=2018-07-09|publisher=cbc.ca}}</ref>

Bayefsky speaks out in defense of Israel. She was critical of "the Obama administration's response to Israel's announcement that it will continue to build new homes for its expanding population in occupied territory," calling it "hysterical," and asked, "Given that the United States is supposed to be committed to the parties determining ultimate legal ownership of the land in final status negotiations, what is going on?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/03/15/2010-03-15_obamas_dangerous_overreaction_on_israel.html#ixzz1A9JnbQI8 |title=Obama's dangerous overreaction on Israel NYDailyNews.com, Monday, March 15th 2010 |publisher=Nydailynews.com |accessdate=2012-07-18}}</ref>

==Awards== *1992: Recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<ref>[http://www.sshrc.ca/web/home_e.asp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041117045004/http://www.sshrc.ca/web/home_e.asp|date=November 17, 2004}}</ref> *2002–2004: Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem *1995–1996: Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant in Peace and International Cooperation

==Publications== *''The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads'', Transnational Publishers, (softbound), c. 2001; Kluwer Law International (hardbound), c. 2001; *''The UN Human Rights Treaty System in the Twenty-First Century'', Kluwer Law International, c. 2000; (co-ed.) *''The UN and the Jews'', Commentary Magazine, February 1, 2004.<ref>[https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-un-and-the-jews/ The UN and the Jews] by Anne Bayefsky, Commentary Magazine, February 1, 2004.</ref> *''Human Rights and Forced Displacement'', Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c. 2000; (ed.) *''Self-Determination in International Law: Quebec and Lessons Learned'', Kluwer Law International, c. 2000; *''International Human Rights Law: Use in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Litigation'', Butterworths, c. 1992; *''Canada's Constitution Act 1982 and Amendments: A Documentary History, Volume I and II'', McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c. 1989; (ed.) *''Legal Theory Meets Legal Practice'', Academic Printing and Publishing, c. 1988; (co-ed.) *''Equality Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'', Carswell Co. Ltd., c. 1985.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.Bayefsky.com Bayefsky.com], The United Nations Human Rights Treaties *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060219041044/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=BayeAnne Bio of Bayefsky] at the Hudson Institute *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060304191247/http://www.eyeontheun.org/contributors.asp Bio of Bayefsky] at Eye on the UN *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120525032847/http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=908 Human Rights Watch Coverup] from NGO Monitor *[http://www.jinsa.org/node/536 Bio of Bayefsky] at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

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