Today, November 28, 2010, we are holding the 32nd meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
The order of the day today is a study of sexual assault on women and children during peacekeeping operations, in fragile states and in situations of conflict.
Today we have two witnesses: Gaëlle Breton-Le Goff, who is associate professor in the Department of Law at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and Mélanie Coutu, who is a research fellow at the Centre for Peace Missions and Military Operations.
We are very glad to have you here, both of you. We welcome you to make your comments. Normally we give you about 10 minutes. I recognize there are two of you, and I'm not sure how you divide it up. If you go over, it's not a serious problem, though it eats a bit into the time we have for questions at the end.
At any rate, we are all interested in hearing what you have to say, and we encourage you to start, please.