Anne Bayefsky is a lawyer, scholar and activist who currently directs the

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Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. She is a Fox News opinion writer, and an author and editor on several websites.

Career

Bayefsky holds a B.A., M.A. and LL.B. from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

and an M.Litt. from

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. She has served as the director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies, 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

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in 1984 and 1989, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, and a delegate of the

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to the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. She has previously been a Senior Fellow at the

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, an American conservative think tank.Anne Bayefsky
,

Currently, she is director of the

Institute on Human Rights, the senior editor and a board member for the 'Human Rights Voices' online news platform, and an author at 'Eye on the UN', which is run by the Hudson Institute and the Touro College Institute for Human Rights. She also sits on the Board of Advisors of the

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, a non-profit thinktank focusing on issues of

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and

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's national security.Prof. Anne Bayefsky

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. In 2018, the pro-Israel non-profit Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) compensated Bayefsky $280,000.00 for consultant work, according to a public federal filing.

Views

Bayefsky has argued that

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's policy of fully funding Roman Catholic schools, while denying full funding to other religious schools, is discriminatory. Bayefsky speaks out in defense of

. She was critical of "the

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's response to Israel's announcement that it will continue to build new homes for its expanding population in disputed 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?"

Awards

*1992: Recipient of the

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National Fellowship in Human Rights Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. *2002–2004:

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at the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

*1995–1996: Recipient of a

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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 ''Commentary'' is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, and politics, as well as social and cultural issues. Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 under Elliot E. Cohen, editor from 1945 to 1959, ''Commentary'' magazine de ...

, February 1, 2004.The UN and the Jews
by Anne Bayefsky,

, February 1, 2004. *''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

External links

Bayefsky.com
The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Bio of Bayefsky
at the

Bio of Bayefsky
at Eye on the UN
Human Rights Watch Coverup
from

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Bio of Bayefsky
at the