You've heard testimony at this table from both CARE Canada and from the ambassador. Both of them were quite articulate on this point. One particular passage that I reviewed this week from CARE Canada is very instructive; that is, their concerns about the vulnerability of women's rights and so forth are addressed or at least mitigated in an incremental way by careful consultation with local-level elders. That kind of grounded village-by-village-based approach is what we're hoping would be part of the increment of the generational project towards peace that we're talking about. Human rights and peace are a long-term endeavour, and protection of women's rights in that context through a careful deliberation with those local-level elders is a way to entrench those things and create a momentum.
On November 17th, 2010. See this statement in context.