Augustina Mosha is the Program Officer with the Norwegian Church Aid in Tanzania

Doreen Silversmith is a member of Cayuga Nation, Snipe clan, and a representative of the Six Nations Confederacy. She has been a true warrior in the front lines in the struggle for indigenous sovereignty.

Mireille Lapointe is co-cheif of the indigenous Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, who have been fighting to prevent a uranium mine from opening on their traditional lands.

A 24-hour vigil was held outside the Eaton's Centre to honour the memories of the homeless who have died on the streets of Toronto. Since 1985, over 500 have died. Nancy Baker, pictured here, lives on the streets of Toronto. Her boyfriend was one of the people who have died on the streets.

Barbara Stewart-Fischer is a poet and activist. She has been involved in the struggles for the rights of injured workers, anti-poverty, and any other struggle for social justice.

Ellie Gilbert is a film maker. Married into the Wiradjuri Nation (in what is now known as Australia) she has been documenting her people's struggles to stop the world's biggest gold mining corporation, Barrick Gold, from desecrating Lake Cowal - which they consider the sacred heartland of the Wiradjuri people.

Sakura Saunders (front left) and Natalie Lowrey (front right) are volunteer editors with ProtestBarrick.net, a network of communities around the world who are fighting against Barrick Gold, the world's biggest gold mining corporation.

Elena Dumitru, originally from Romania, is the regional coordinator for Amnesty International in Toronto, part of a worldwide movement of people dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights.

Members of the Women Against Poverty Collective occupied an abandoned building in downtown Toronto before being raided and arrested by police. WAPC is a group of women and trans people who are working together to advocate for safe, affordable and accessible housing for women experiencing violence.

Members and supporters of the Women Against Poverty Collective (WAPC) link arms in a standoff with police to protect the four women who occupied the abandoned building, which they planned to convert into safe and affordable housing for women who have been victims of poverty and violence.

Anna La, Alexandra Leroux, Natalie McClure, and Victoria Harnett with Oxfam Canada at a demonstration outside the International Aids Conference in Toronto.

Afghan girl

A demonstrator wearing a mask with prison bars which says "say no to hijab" at last year's International Women's Day March.

Editha Santiago is the president of the KILUS foundation, a women's cooperative in the Philippines, who make bags, shoes, furniture, and other merchandise out of used juice packs that would otherwise end up in landfills or clogging up the sewers.

Lisa Swainston works with the Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC), an expanding community of Ontario-based international development and global education organizations and individual associate members working globally for social justice. In her free time, Lisa volunteers with Amnesty International, Oxfam Canada, and others.

Mother and daughter demonstrators attending the AIDS Women's Rally. Demonstrators marched to the International AIDS Conference in Toronto to demand rights for women as an integral part of the battle against AIDS.

Last, but certainly not least, my mother Liti Lissner, pictured here with my father Jorgen riding an 'Eco-Cab'. A member of the International Women's Club in Copenhagen, Denmark, editor of "The Cosmo," and mother of four boys who love her very much.