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 has served as the director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies,[2] project director for the university's Human Rights Treaty Study, member of Canadian delegations to international meetings, such as the UN Human Rights Commissions in 1993–1996, the UN General Assembly in 1984 and 1989, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, and a delegate of the American Society of International Law to the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.
[3] She has previously been a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, an American conservative think tank.
[8] Bayefsky has organized and run conferences and meetings in the fields of international relations and human rights for non-profits.
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 occupied 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?