​When We Are Bold

Monia Mazigh is a Canadian activist and academic who first came to national prominence for her efforts to free her husband, Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer of Syrian origin who was illegitimately detained in a New York airport in 2002 and sent to a prison in Syria. He was eventually released without charge, and later received compensation and an apology from the Canadian government. Mazigh is currently the National Coordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.

Read Flora MacDonald: A Political Life of Compassion 
by Monia Mazigh in When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right

Flora MacDonald was a prominent Canadian politician and humanitarian. She was Canada’s first female external affairs minister, and one of the first women to run a high-profile campaign for the leadership of a major Canadian political party. In 2007 she founded Future Generations, an organization that supports schools, health and farming projects in Afghan villages. She died in 2015.