Order, please. Welcome to the 87th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today is Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
We are televised today, so the usual rules of good behaviour that apply to televised sessions apply today.
We have with us today as a witness Jocelyn Kelly, the director of the women in war program at Harvard University.
We're returning to a study that we looked at some time ago—it's our first hearing in quite a while—on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, specifically the systematic use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war.
Ms. Kelly, we're very glad to have you here today. I know that the clerk will already have explained the general outlines of how these things work. You have as much time as you need for your presentation, but we usually encourage witnesses to stay around the 10-minute mark. The amount of time we have left when you're finished will determine how much time we have for each of the six rounds of questions and answers that you'll get from the members of the subcommittee.
Please feel free to begin any time.