Anne Bayefsky
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

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Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow with the Hudson Institute and Professor and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. From 2001 to 2004 she was a visitor at Columbia University Law School. From 2004 to 2005 she was a visitor at Metropolitan College of New York. She is on leave from York University, Toronto, Canada. In January 2003 she launched www.bayefsky.com, a major human rights website dedicated to enhancing the implementation of international human rights legal standards in every state.

Professor Bayefsky served with the Canadian delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1984 and 1989, and the Commission on Human Rights from 1993 to 1997. She also served on a number of delegations to the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women and the 2001 Durban Racism Conference. She was a member of the External Research Advisory Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 1996-1998, and a member of the Advisory Panel of UNDP on the UN Development Report for 2000. From 1998 to 2001 she worked in collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on a review of the UN human rights treaty system, authoring a major report on the reform of the treaty system in 2001. She is a member of the International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice, and Editor-in-Chief of the series "Refugees and Human Rights", published by Brill.

She holds a B.A., M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, an M.Litt. from Oxford University, and is a barrister and solicitor of the Ontario Bar.

Writings by Anne Bayefsky (View Biography)


Title	Date

The Syrian Spectacle at the UN	April 25, 2011
U.S. State Department's Duplicity at the U.N. Human Rights Council	November 1, 2010
Secretary-General's Flotilla Investigation	August 9, 2010
President Obama Blackmails Israel at the UN	August 4, 2010
SOS: The UN Strikes Again	May 12, 2010
State of the Union: Dangerous Weakness	February 1, 2010
How We Know Obama Won't Stop Iran	September 15, 2009
Obama's UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls	September 10, 2009
The UN's Worldwide Web of Anti-Israel Bias	September 9, 2009
Africa Vs. the Arab World	July 17, 2009
Obama & Iran: Human Rights on the Backburner & The Smothering of Democratic Dreams	July 10, 2009
Islamic Countries Reject Monitor for Discrimination Against Women	June 18, 2009
German Double Cross on Durban II	May 15, 2009
UN Launches Durban II Revisionism Campaign	May 12, 2009
Anti-Semitism Courtesy of the U.N.	April 23, 2009
Obama Joins Human Rights Charade (1 comment)	April 9, 2009
Durban II: Kicking Israel Around	April 8, 2009
In Europe, Obama's Burdened by Durban	April 2, 2009
A Sham Engagement	March 12, 2009
Durban II Alert: Negotiations End in Disgrace	January 30, 2009
Obama, Durban II and UN Revisionism	December 26, 2008
The UN's Racial Showdown	December 19, 2008
The UN As A Partner?	December 8, 2008
The U.N.: Funding Our Own Demise	November 14, 2008
Notes From The U.N.	October 29, 2008