Thank you very much, Ms. Deschamps.
With respect to how my team and I work, there are nine people in total in my team. We are working politically. We are working within the UN system to influence everything from how mandates are formulated to how our peacekeepers are working on the ground. It's a very political role. Also, as you might know, this is my background.
It is my obligation to engage with governments, and I always aim for the highest level. I try to meet with presidents, prime ministers, and government ministers to mobilize them and to work with them on these issues. For example, the last time I visited the DRC, I managed to get a long meeting with President Kabila.
It is extremely important that we create political accountability and ownership of this issue. Without the work of NGOs and civil society organizations, we wouldn't know that much about this whole issue. We are dependent on, and indeed are very encouraged by, the work that NGO and civil society organizations are doing. They are also helping us to report about what happens on the ground.
I agree with you that the situation in Sudan is extremely difficult, as we learned from meeting with Sudanese government representatives. They underlined that they take rape so seriously that actually four witnesses--four male witnesses--are needed in order to report a rape. Of course, this means that no rapes will be reported because very rarely will there be four witnesses to report on such a crime.
You are also correct in describing the challenges in Haiti. We have to decide how to engage, because it is not really a conflict-related situation for me and my team. The whole UN system is engaged in finding solutions. It also engages with donor countries and others, the organizations that are active on the ground, to see how they can prevent sexual violence and rapes from happening.
I think that includes a lot of solutions, from patrolling during the night and making sure they are let into the camps to do more policing and monitoring of the situation with the possibility of intervening. There are more civil criminal elements who are raping women and children in Haiti. For me and my team, Haiti has not been given to us as a priority country, but of course we are keeping an eye on the situation. We are trying to collect as much information as possible from all areas in the world where sexual violence is used.