Foreign Affairs committee  The Congo involvement, yes, there is. We have a project we're hoping the board or the executive will approve regarding sexual violence in Congo. Our activities there are concentrated in the east of the country, where the conflict was, and they are very much focused on capacity-building of women's rights: organizations of women who have been victims but are also activists in trying to seek justice.

Foreign Affairs committee  The entire objective is to end impunity on this, and the work we're doing is not so much with the police side of things. It's really with the legal side of things, to bring the violators to justice at the national or the international level. That's the target we have chosen: the legal avenue to end impunity.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. I'll take this question because when the partnership was established I was at Rights and Democracy. We established that partnership in 2006. As you remember, this was the period when the commission, which was utterly discredited, was being transformed into the council.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we are actually registered as an NGO. Obviously, we have to abide by Swiss law, so we followed the Swiss law in establishing a Rights and Democracy organization in Switzerland. It is registered as an independent organization, but the board of directors of Rights and Democracy Switzerland is entirely made up of either the board of directors of Rights and Democracy here, and the senior staff.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a slogan we use to mobilize students to work on human rights issues on their campuses. The domestic involvement is at the level of university students in order to encourage them in their education on human rights issues.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's only one small element. As Mr. Beauregard mentioned, our flagship event is the John Humphrey Freedom Award, which is given in December. There is a cross-country speaking tour for the recipients. There is also a cross-country dialogue series, where in the next five years we'll be going to every province and territory to talk about the programming and the human rights issues we work on.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you for the question. Very briefly, the law-writing process in our project is an important part, but it's not the only part. The project also has the proactive element, where we actually go to the communities in the provinces in which we work, and we work with community leaders, be it security....