Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. I'll try to be brief. There's an encouraging global movement afoot on this, with various regional bodies. Let me just speak to a meeting that was held in Addis Ababa last week with the African Union. There's an all-Africa push for civil registration and vital statistics.

Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, wow.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have an eight-point plan for this. I'll skip some of the points in it, but let me start with a couple of them. One, which has been two years in the making but we'll launch in September in India, is called Know Violence—and the “no” is in red. It's a global learning initiative

Foreign Affairs committee  Where we are depends on whether it's Monday or Thursday in those discussions, because it's just a constant turnover. We call ourselves the “C-six”, the child-focused agencies who have come together in their advocacy, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-Gen

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thirty years ago, over two summers, my job was updating the index to the rules of procedure in committees of the House of Commons. What a pleasure to be back here. I know from that exercise that I'm not supposed to use any profanity. That was under “P”. Thank you very much for