Sally Armstrong

Topics

International Affairs Media Women in Society Best-selling author Human Rights

Presentations

The Power of One: Making Your Voice Count

Who in the World Cares? The awesome consequences of looking the other way when the community, the corporation, the country is in trouble.

Human Rights- Human Wrongs: You know what's wrong and you know how to right it, so who's stopping you?

Women and Children Last: Studies done by The World Bank say the treatment of women can alter the economy. Now is the hour for action.

Diversity

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Summary Profile

Human rights activist, documentary filmmaker and award-winning author Sally Armstrong was editor-in-chief of Homemaker's magazine from 1988 to 1999. She is presently the editor-at-large of Chatelaine magazine and a contributing editor at Maclean’s magazine.

She has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan, her eyewitness reports have earned her awards including the Gold Award from the National Magazine Awards Foundation and the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. She received the Amnesty International Media Award in 2000 and again in 2002.

Sally is the co-producer and host of several documentaries including They Fell From the Sky that aired on CBC’s Rough Cuts in November 2001. A documentary called The Daughters of Afghanistan aired on CBC Newsworld, The Passionate Eye in March 2003.

In 1996, Sally was honoured by the YWCA of Toronto with the prestigious Women of Distinction Award in Communications. In 1997 she received the Achievement Award for Human Rights for Women from Jewish Women International. In 1998 she was honoured with Media Watch's Dodi Robb Award. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Royal Roads University in 2000 and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University at the October, 2002 convocation. In 1998 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Her book Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan was published by Penguin Books in May, 2002.