Introduction
Jeanne Sarson is the Co-Founder of the Non-State Torture (NST) and a Human Rights Defender based in Canada.
Education and early life
Sarson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as an Acadian-Metis descent. She is a B.Sc., Nursing graduate from St.John, New Brunswick, Canada. Sarson's mother got separated from her father and raised Sarson with her younger brother.Sarson later moved to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, where she got married. Sarson spent eleven years living and working across the Canadian Arctics and then moved to Nova Scotia. Sarson has twin sons and a grandson.
Jeanne Sarson and Linda McDonald co-founded the Non-State Torture also known as ‘Persons Against Non-State Torture including Ritual Abuse-Torture (RAT).’ They work as an activist against NST (Non-State Torture).
Awards and recognitions
Jeanne Sarson and Linda McDonald received the women of Peace Awards from Women's Peace Power Foundation. Women's Media Centre Live interviewed Janne Sarson about Non-State Torture on 2015.
Sarson has received the excellence award in Nursing Practice; and as a member of the Canadian Federation of University Women, she has won the International Relations Award.