• Mona Mahmudnizhad, 10 September 1965–18 June 1983

    by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr The 35th anniversary of the death of Mona Mahmudnizhad seems to have passed without world notice yesterday. On 18 June 1983, she was executed in Iran for being Baha’i and for teaching that faith to the children in her community. Her death, and especially her courage as the last one executed in a

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  • Has the G7 Lost its Mojo?

    After a series of sessions on global trade and the key Canadian priorities of gender equality and climate change, the highly anticipated two-day Group of Seven (G7) summit ended Saturday afternoon in Charlevoix, Quebec. There had been hopes for a consensus communiqué. It was certainly issued as the summit closed, spelling out the key successes

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  • Women Leaders Needed in the WTO

    The Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment is a stepping stone on the road to advancing gender equality and the economic empowerment of women in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The best way to achieve gender equality in an organization is to change the leadership at the top so that it represents the population

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  • Sentinels of the Pacific: What Seabirds Tell Us about the Oil Industry

    When ornithologist Hisashi Sugawa of the Bird Banding Association invited me this May to accompany his team to the ongoing investigation of the Streaked Shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas) on Kanmuri Island, an uninhabited island under the jurisdiction of Maizuru City in Kyoto Prefecture, I accepted with enthusiasm. This monitoring project, sponsored by the Maizuru Board of

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