The Speakers Action Group

By Shlomo Kapustin
Jewish Tribune Correspondent
Friday, 24 Sep 2008

TORONTO – Prominent international-law scholar Anne Bayefsky delivered a vigourous, fact-packed critique of the United Nations and the human rights community last week in Toronto. Her lecture, part of an event at Beth Tikvah synagogue that drew about 300 people, focused on the Durban Review Conference – commonly known as Durban II – which is slated to take place in April in Geneva. "Durban was not a beginning and not an end of a UN-based effort to discriminate against… and destroy the Jewish state, but it is emblematic of the corruption of the fundamental principles of the UN and human rights to serve those who have no interest in human rights or freedom," said Bayefsky, referring to the United Nations’s World Conference Against Racism, which took place in Durban, South Africa in 2001. Read more