Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My recollection is that some of the NGO partners who were implementing these programs and projects for us focused on female-headed households as well as child-headed households. Certainly at the time, the international community recognized that and focused on trying to ensure tha

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I will just add a few points. We are of the view that the Rwandan genocide has had a really profound impact on the way Canada and the international community actually provide humanitarian assistance now and how we go about protecting crisis-affected populations, including women

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm happy to take that, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much for the question. Again, I think we would say the same thing in that today we didn't come prepared to actually speak to the peacekeeping mission per se. What we can say, or what we could comment on, is the humanitarian eff

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Specifically, to get to the issue of fighting sexual violence and impunity in the Great Lakes region, at the Francophonie summit in Kinshasa, in October 2012, our Prime Minister reiterated Canada's commitment to fight against sexual violence by announcing a project called Fight A

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just add that part of the Canadian assistance on the security-related side actually is supporting the Government of Jordan to ensure security in and around the refugee camps in Jordan.

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, when you speak to the refugees in the neighbouring countries, they all want to go home. The most beneficial thing we could do is allow them the ability to go home with dignity, and the choice to go. But that's not where we're at, and we all understand that. Whether the

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what I mean. As they're leaving Lebanon, basically going in with a convoy into Syria, they will hit, at times, up to 30 to 40 different checkpoints. And at each point they do have to negotiate access, even though they may have gotten the green light from the Syrian governm

Foreign Affairs committee  I think in conflict situations we all clearly understand that women and girls really do face greater risks in sexual and gender-based violence. You did mention forced marriage, and of course there's abuse and sexual exploitation. I think the case in Syria is absolutely no excepti

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay. As you can understand, this is a very sensitive topic when you look at cash-for-work in neighbouring countries, countries where locals might not have employment. So I think our partners try to target this through other means. For instance, Save the Children will set up safe

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps it's very important to add as well that the majority of the refugees are not in refugee camps. They are really living with host communities and with host families, which perhaps is a plus because it means that the refugees are not all located or warehoused in one area, bu

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. The last time, my answers in French were not clear. I will answer in English, to ensure that I am understood correctly. As you all know, through our humanitarian assistance we support the provision of shelter protection, food assistance, health care

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not sure what the commitments are against No Lost Generation, because it's a new initiative that has come out. It's part of the 2014 appeals. We're learning as we go along what other countries have committed. But we can find that out for you and get back to you on it. I'll

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that it's gone quite well, and I say this because they've managed to have quite widespread coverage. They had targeted 22 million children in the region and in the first round they managed to vaccinate 24 million children in the region, of whom 2.4 million are in Syri

Foreign Affairs committee  We are a member of the high-level group on access. We attended the meeting on January 30 in Rome.