Foreign Affairs committee  I'll speak for World Vision. We contribute to addressing that very sensitive issue. There's a medical component to that. There's a psychological component. Then there is, let's say, the recuperative component. We contribute to each of those essentially indirectly through our supp

Foreign Affairs committee  Let's keep it simple. I think the starting point is to make that clear distinction and to recognize, as Martin said, the primacy of the humanitarian imperative: the delivery of impartial, neutral, and independent aid. Now, this is not a silver bullet that's going to allows us to

Foreign Affairs committee  I think when you have a context such as exists in the Kurdish area—encampment, people trying to find a livelihood within the urban centres, high vulnerability—this will always be an issue, and I can't quantify it.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're certainly monitoring that. We don't have programs addressing that issue at this point, but it's certainly something that within our child protection interventions we would monitor closely. But I think it's fair to say that the vulnerability that supports that kind of activi

Foreign Affairs committee  In the case of Iraq we are working exclusively in the Kurdish-controlled areas, so areas of relative stability. We have had operations in northern Syria where we operated from Turkey, cross-border. That's been an engagement that has gone up and down to be frank. We started pretty

Foreign Affairs committee  Go ahead.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. I tried to articulate some of the issues we look at in terms of determining who is the most vulnerable. At the same time, we have to recognize, as Martin has indicated, that there are large areas where we simply don't have access and where we can be quite confident th

Foreign Affairs committee  First, we need to recognize that the overall response to the crisis takes place on many fronts. We are working in Lebanon, Jordan, inside Syria, as well as in Iraq, so it is difficult to give you a detailed response that would cover the whole humanitarian response. But in each c

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to focus now on the needs of and the impact in particular on the most vulnerable. In our work, we see the direct impact this is having on families and children. Like Salma's, many families have lost family members and have fled with very few possessions, sometimes leav

Foreign Affairs committee  It could be, yes. I'm not a military expert so I'm not going to....

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a rhetorical question.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's fair to say that it is a problem. It's very clear that some parties to the conflict are recruiting children, either by force or other means. As such, it's a critical issue. I think what's important is these are events that are very difficult to prevent. What we advoc

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think there's a simple answer to that. I would find it very difficult to anticipate exactly what's going to happen. I think our key concern is, as I stated in my opening remarks, that we don't see a military solution to the conflict. There has to be some type of process o

Foreign Affairs committee  That $1 million was allocated in this last round of funding. It's part of the $13 million that's been previously mentioned and that's meant to provide immediate humanitarian response to the current context, in particular related to food insecurity, the provision of cash and food,

Foreign Affairs committee  Among other things....