Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all I want to thank Louise Arbour for making time to speak before this committee. I want to thank her for all the work she's done with the UN and our courts, and also in working with the International Crisis Group, which has been an organization I've monitored over the years. It has done an excellent amount of good work and advocacy, as well as good work on the ground in helping those who have issues of human rights.
Your presentation was quite powerful and very thoughtful, and I was struck by your understanding of the importance of power and politics. I think all of us in politics understand the importance of power and how it can be misused to deal with issues and bring about conflicts around the world.
We are engaged, as you mentioned, quite strongly in what's going on in Haiti and in Afghanistan. We have sacrificed lives. I have raised concerns about what is happening with the administration of President Karzai; some of the testimony we've heard over the past has been quite troublesome.
I think you are right. Those victims who have come before this committee, the NGOs, and all the women advocates say you need to have women at the table. It's very important that women be very much a part of the structure of the discussion and also be part of the solution. Empowering women is very important.
I want to ask you specifically about the issue of human trafficking. We've talked about sexual violence. What is happening in those countries around the trafficking of women and young children? Is that becoming an even greater problem over the years, or do you see that as not being as relevant as the issue of sexual violence in these particular countries?