Member In Brief   
Anne Bayefsky

"Terrorism, according to a 2007 UN report, 'is a relative concept.'  There lies the root of the necessity for the United States and genuine democracies to find ways to protect peace and security and promote human rights beyond the United Nations -- a global organization still struggling to define terrorism let alone combat it."

 		   Anne Bayefsky
    


Biography   

Professor Anne Bayefsky, B.A., M.A., LL.B., M.Litt.(Oxon)

 
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, 2004-

Director, Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, 2005-

Editor, www.EYEontheUN.org, launched September 2005; dedicated to making the UN's record on identifying and condemning human rights violations transparent; quoted in leading newspapers, editorial columns, television newscasts worldwide.

Editor, www.bayefsky.com, leading human rights database on UN human rights treaty system; since its launch in 2003 it has had almost 2 million visitors from 189 states and 13 territories

Adjunct professor and Associate research scholar, Columbia University Law School, New York, 2002-2004; Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School 2001-2002

Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University Law Faculty, Jerusalem, summers 2002 – 2004

Project Director, Human Rights Treaty Study, York University, 1998-

Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, 1996-1999

Professor of Constitutional and International Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, 1981-1996

 
Associations include:

  • Member, International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice
  • Editor-in-Chief, “Refugees and Human Rights” Series, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • Governing Board, UN Watch, (ECOSOC-accredited NGO based in Geneva)

 
Awards include:

  • recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research (1992) (one award     annually, Canada’s premier human rights research fellowship)
  • recipient MacArthur Foundation Grant, Program on Peace and International Cooperation (1995-96)

 
Professional Activities include:

  • Delegate of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists to the NGO Forum, and of  UN Watch to the Durban World Conference Against Racism (2001)
  • Academic Member of the Canadian Delegations to the U.N. Human Rights Commission (1993-1996), the U.N. General Assembly (1984, 1989), Vienna World Conf. on Human Rights (1993)
  • Delegate of the American Society of International Law to the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women (1995)
  • frequent contributor to editorial pages of newspapers and periodicals including: The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Washington Times, The Jerusalem Post, National Review, National Post (Canada), the Chicago Sun-Times, and The New York Sun;  television appearances include CNN, FOX, and MSNBC; frequent radio commentator.

 
Author and Editor of 12 books and numerous articles in the field of international human rights law, constitutional human rights law, and equality rights, most recently:  (ed.)  United Democratic Nations (2007), Hudson Institute; (co-ed.) State Support for Religious Education: Canada versus the United Nations, (2007) Martinus Nijhoff Publishers;  (ed.) Human Rights, Refugees and Displaced Persons in Process, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c. 2006; How To Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System, c. 2002 (Kluwer Law International and Transnational Publishers.)

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