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,[1] and an author and editor on several websites.
Currently, she is director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights,[1] the senior editor and a board member for the 'Human Rights Voices' online news platform,[5] and an author at 'Eye on the UN', which is run by the Hudson Institute and the Touro College Institute for Human Rights.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
Bayefsky has argued that Ontario's policy of fully funding Roman Catholic schools, while denying full funding to other religious schools, is discriminatory.[10]
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 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?"[11]
Awardsedit
1992: Recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.[12]
1995–1996: Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant in Peace and International Cooperation
Publicationsedit
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.)
^Henkin, Louis; An-Na'im, Abdullahi; Schneider, Mark L. (1994). "[Introduction]". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law). 88: 419–428. doi:10.1017/S0272503700082756. JSTOR 25658852. S2CID 246003101 – via JSTOR.
^ProPublica, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Ken Schwencke, Brandon Roberts, Alec Glassford (9 May 2013). "COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC - Form Form 990 for period ending Dec 2018 - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2020-12-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"UN says funding of Catholic schools discriminatory". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. cbc.ca. 1999-11-05. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
^"Obama's dangerous overreaction on Israel NYDailyNews.com, Monday, March 15th 2010". Nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2012-07-18.