One of the things that we know from this committee is that sexual violence is used as a weapon. In this particular country—this was in Mali, in the rural area she was from—she told me that many of the women who were accessing these clinics were there because they had been gang-raped by warlords. Some of them were teenagers, and they were being denied their reproductive rights, because of that previous government policy.
We have just completed a study on women human rights defenders in the subcommittee on international human rights. We know that those who fight for the rights of women to live in peace, and to prosper in their countries—those very defenders are also targeted, often violently, through sexual violence, but also by states, through imprisonment and disappearances.
What are we doing, as part of our international policy, to support those human rights defenders? I'm hoping, of course, that when our committee report comes out shortly, you'll have a chance to look at some of the recommendations of our committee as well.