Anne Bayefsky

Anne Bayefsky is a preeminent human rights scholar and activist.¹ 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 New York City 's Hudson Institute where her areas of expertise include International Human Rights Law, Equality Rights, and Constitutional Human Rights Law.² Professor Bayefsky has served as the director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies , project director for the university's Human Rights Treaty Study, a 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 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 UN Watch , an ECOSOC NGO based in Geneva , Switzerland , and Editor-in-Chief of the Series "Refugees and Human Rights", published by Martinus Nijhoff , The Hague .³