ANNE BAYEFSKY, Senior Editor
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. |
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GILLIAN COLLINS, Legal Contributor, Associate Editor, UN and Human Rights
Gillian Collins is the Project Coordinator and Chief Researcher of the Human Rights Treaty Study at York University, Toronto, Canada. Since 1993 Ms. Collins has specialized in legal research, as well as web-based education and advocacy tools, in the field of human rights and the United Nations. She has been a legal practitioner in two Ontario law firms. She received her bachelor of law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, and her Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology) at McMaster University, Canada. |
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Lana Zizic, Assistant Editor
Lana Zizic is a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in international human rights and the United Nations. Ms. Zizic interned at a New York civil rights law firm. She holds a Bachelor of Law from University of Zagreb Law School, a Master of Law from Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law School, and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. |
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