Thank you very much for that response. One of the things we do here often is that we ask for written follow-up, so could you, through your office, provide written follow-up to the committee about the specific questions around genocide and whether mass detention under the conditions of the pandemic could be seen as constitutive of genocide?
I have a follow-up question—and feel free to let me know if it doesn't fit within your brief, but I'd be curious to know. Our Canadian ambassador has called on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate China's behaviour in this respect. Unfortunately, China is actually a member of the Human Rights Council, as are Pakistan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
I know, Ms. Triggs, that in your previous work for Human Rights Watch you had made some comments about the Human Rights Council and its capacity to investigate human rights abuses in light of the presence of states with very poor human rights records on it. I wonder if you could speak to the role of the Human Rights Council. Is it capable of conducting a proper investigation in the case of the Uighurs, and then more broadly, what role is it able to play or not able to play in light of the current circumstances?