Anne Bayefsky

Anne Bayefsky

Anne Bayefsky is a human rights scholar and activist. Holding a B.A., M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto and an M.Litt. from Oxford University, today she serves as professor at York University, Toronto, Canada; a barrister and solicitor, Ontario Bar; and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute where her areas of expertise include international human rights law, equality rights, and constitutional human rights law.

Professor Bayefsky has served as the director of [http://www.yorku.ca/crs/ 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 1993-1996, the UN General Assembly in 1984 and 1989, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, and in 1995, a delegate of the American Society of International Law to the [http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/ Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women] .

Currently, she is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice; on the Governing Board of [http://www.unwatch.org/ UN Watch] , an ECOSOC accredited NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland; Editor-in-Chief of the Series "Refugees and Human Rights", published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague; and editor of [http://www.eyeontheun.org/ Eye on the UN] .

Professor Bayefsky has published extensively in the field of human rights, including a collaborative report with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2001, as well as the creation of [http://www.Bayefsky.com Bayefsky.com] , a gateway to the United Nations' Human Rights Treaties aiming to enhance "the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations" on the basis that "Accessibility to UN human rights norms by individuals everywhere is fundamental to their successful realization."

Awards

*1992 Recipient of Canada's preeminent human rights research fellowship, the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research, from the [http://www.sshrc.ca/web/home_e.asp Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada] .
*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.)

* [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ylwKle77O7UJ:www.palestinefacts.org/bayefsky%2520un%2520article.pdf "The UN and the Jews"] ( [http://www.palestinefacts.org/bayefsky%20un%20article.pdf PDF] ) in Commentary magazine, February, 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.

Related Links

* [http://watch.windsofchange.net/alpha.htm#bayefsky Archive of selected Bayefsky articles] from Winds Of Change
* [http://www.Bayefsky.com Bayefsky.com] , The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
* [http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=BayeAnne Bio of Bayefsky] at Hudson Institute website
* [http://www.eyeontheun.org/contributors.asp Bio of Bayefsky] at "Eye on the UN"
*Modern anti-Semitism
*Israel, Palestine and the United Nations


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