Sunday Times Magazine
North Korea's Schindler: meet the man who saved more than 3,000 defectors.
Toronto Life Magazine
ESCAPING ISIS, When the Islamic State invaded, the Yazidi people fled. In Canada, some have found a place to start piecing together their shattered lives.
The Walrus
Sometimes when you are driving by a park you’ll catch a glimpse of brown-skinned women weighted with the responsibility of caring for white-skinned children. Their own governments are happy to see them go—better to export poverty than perpetuate it at home. And Ottawa, forever lacking a national child-care policy, has been only too willing to tap into this vast pool of cheap, desperate labour—after all, our baby boomers needed the help. But now the nannies to the country’s richest generation are demanding a quicker route to citizenship and protection from abusive employers. Will they receive it?
Chatelaine
Ninety per cent of women in Sierra Leone have undergone female circumcision as part of a coming-of-age ritual. Its detractors call the tradition traumatic and say it can lead to sexual dysfunction and complications during childbirth. So why are some of the practice’s strongest defenders women?
Marie Claire
Last October, Ji Hyun Park, a Manchester mother, gave one of the leading testimonies at the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea. The report’s findings charged North Korea and its leader with human rights abuses. Here, in an exclusive interview, she gives a rare insight into life for women in this secretive, brutal dictatorship. By Susan McClelland, Marie Claire (UK)