Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I guess Canada can submit petitions. I don't know if it's possible to submit petitions on other countries. When you say “Canada”, it can be an individual or an organization that can submit petitions to the commission.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, indeed. In fact, Kate can also speak to that in more detail in terms of our specific programs. When we work in any sector—so in the case of education and health—we actually work and support the government programs. Obviously, we are concerned about the sustainability of this

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In Honduras?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, we're not involved with those types of programming through our country program in Honduras at this point in time.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We have various activities, yes, related to.... In each country we have strategies and plans that are different, and I'd be happy to come and talk about that at the right opportunity. Yes, we do have some programming that is more related to economic opportunities, sustainable eco

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't really have information on that. CIDA doesn't really work in the area of land tenure or land rights. Other donors do, but we do not. In terms of our involvement when it comes to land use, our food security programming works more in the area of making sustainable use and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Besides education I can mention our health work. We have a number of health initiatives. I mentioned an initiative we have to help prevent some diseases. I also mentioned in my statement a project that has now been completed where we helped with community health—training at the c

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Of course, I can only comment from the CIDA perspective, and I'll address the last part. I mentioned already that our thematic priorities in Honduras are health and education—which is in support of children and youth—and food security. At the same time, we have different mechani

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I mentioned a number of various initiatives that we implement under different programs, under different parts of the agency. Depending on the initiative, the length of the start and end date is different. You referred, in particular, to the justice initiative, the Justice Educati

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The G-16 is one of the vehicles through which.... The G-16 operates both at the ambassador level and at the more technical, donor level. As you can imagine, there are an array of issues and challenges that we can discuss, so that's one of the mechanisms used to allow the actors o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In the course of the implementation of our activities, we are of course in constant contact with the partners who are implementing the initiatives on the ground. We exchange information with them to make sure the security situation does not impede our activities. It's more fro

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I said, as the youth population is so important, it's important to keep up with offering them appropriate services. Education is one, and we've talked about that. Obviously those youth will also have to have economic opportunities in order to contribute to society, and that'

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will start in French and then go to English in the middle of this statement. I am pleased to appear before you today, following the testimony of Mr. Neil Reeder and Mr. Jeffrey Marder of the DFAIT at the February 7 subcommittee meeting.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Leslie Norton, our DG for humanitarian assistance, can address this question.

Foreign Affairs committee  The different—