I call the meeting to order.
Today, November 4, 2010, we are holding the 30th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are now studying the treatment of sexual minorities in Uganda.
We have two witnesses here today who are from the Pride Uganda Alliance International. As per a previous agreement, for which there was consent from all committee members, the identities of these witnesses are not being revealed even though this is a meeting held in public. I would just ask all members to keep that in mind.
We do, however, want to stress that everybody here takes this issue very seriously and we are particularly anxious to hear the testimony of these witnesses.
For the benefit of the witnesses, we normally give about 10 minutes, more or less—we're not really firm on that—for your initial testimony and after that is done we will then go to questions from the various members of the subcommittee. Perhaps I could ask our two witnesses to divide the time between yourselves and to begin.