Joan Elizabeth Russow (born November 1, 1938) is a Canadian peace activist and former national leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1997 to 2001.
[3] In collaboration with the professors in the Law faculty of the University of Toronto, Russow was the litigant in the Charter challenge of the first-past-the-post electoral system in Canada.
[5] Under Russow's leadership the party developed policies promoting social justice, human rights, and peace, as well as the more traditional concerns with environment.
This declaration called upon the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate the contribution of militarism to greenhouse gas emissions.
[12] In March 2007, Russow lobbied state delegations in the UN General Assembly to invoke Article 22 of the Charter of the United Nations to set up an international tribunal to try the Bush administration.
[14] For the 2009 Conference on Climate change in Copenhagen, she submitted a document co-written with Rickard Levicki of England to the state negotiators.