Джоан Рассов: Канадский активист за мир и справедливость

Canadian peace activist

Joan Elizabeth Russow (born November 1, 1938) is a Canadian peace activist and former national leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1997 to 2001. She is also a co founder of the Ecological Rights Association and the Global Compliance Research Project.

Russow received her BA in art history and a master's degree in education from the University of British Columbia. In collaboration with the professors in the Law faculty of the University of Toronto, Russow was the litigant in the Charter challenge of the first past the post electoral system in Canada. White was the manager of Russow's election campaign as leader of the federal Green party. Under Russow's leadership the party developed policies promoting social justice, human rights, and peace, as well as the more traditional concerns with environment. In the 2001 Quebec City protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Russow was detained for taking a photograph of the jail that was being emptied to incarcerate the FTAA protesters. Russow promoted the Green Party as a leader in the anti globalization movement, in particular the anti corporatist and pro peace movement. Russow and White left the Green Party in 2001, partly due to the German Green party's support of the NATO attack on Serbia.

Russow is a co founder of the Ecological Rights Association and the Global Compliance Research Project. In March 2008, at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, she collaborated on a paper related to the delegitimization of war; this paper was officially sanctioned for distribution to state delegations at the UN. On August 4, 2008, in Victoria she presented a representative of Stephen Harper with a paper entitled 95 Articles of Condemnation of the Harper Government.