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.

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?

Maclean’s, Sad Little Girls

Child-Sex Trade Thriving in Cambodia

IT'S AFTER MIDNIGHT and we're cruising slowly along the potholed road that leads to Svay Pak, Phnom Penh's infamous brothel district. It's very dark - there are no street lamps and the only light comes from flickering candles set in small Buddhist shrines on the roadside. Promisingly, there doesn't seem to be much activity along the road on this hot summer night. Perhaps the Cambodian government's crackdown on the child-sex trade is having an effect. Back in March, the government had closed most of the 50-odd Svay Pak brothels - known for housing underaged Vietnamese girls - in an effort to clean up the country's growing image as a pedophile's paradise.

Chatelaine, Cut Both Ways

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?

Maclean’s Mail-order Bride Business

Mail-order brides of one form or another have been coming to North America for more than 200 years. Currently, some 100 companies specializing in the business operate worldwide, advertising as many as 150,000 potential spouses a year on the Internet or in the pages of monthly catalogues.

Marie Claire: 'I escaped a North Korean Prison camp'

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)

Marie Clair (UK)

Two years after escaping the clutches of an ISIS commander, Badia Hassan Ahmed tells Susan McClelland her story and speaks about her desire to highlight the plight of fellow refugees

Glamour

The Truth Teller - Hyeonseo Lee.

Maclean’s

The growing trade in animals, some of them rare species, poses dangers to public health and safety--and to the animals themselves