Thank you, Mr. Cotler.
Some of the main obstacles in this regard seem to be that the countries we're working in and we're visiting.... Last week, I was in Uganda speaking to the head of the police from south Sudan. When I asked him what is the biggest challenge he faces, he didn't talk about referendum security. He talked about sexual gender-based violence and how they need international assistance to help them train their police officers.
He did mention that it goes beyond the police force as well. It points to the justice system to have the necessary laws to ensure the prosecution of these people, and to the court system as well.
There are a lot of structural impediments. You're talking about many new countries. In East Timor, where I worked, they had no laws when they started, basically, so that was an opening for people to just have carte blanche to go and do as they saw fit.
Those are some of the impediments. The PPC, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, has been doing a lot of work in Sudan in the UNAMID missions, and in the Sudan mission as well, UNMIS, in training police officers in how to investigate sexual gender-based violence. They are training not only the local police officers, but also the UN police officers as well, who are coming in from around the world not having the necessary experience themselves to investigate.
This is one of the big impediments: not having the appropriate expertise to investigate these very serious crimes.
I'll pass it on to Sophie. She may want to add something.