The committee of 10 is selected from different geopolitical groups that comprise the IPU as a whole. They are nominated by those geopolitical groups. They work in camera; therefore, much of the information they obtain is considered confidential. They meet sometimes for full weekends. I know of instances where the committee met and worked, frankly, overnight to deal with the kinds of evidence and information put to the committee.
They have a team of evidentiary experts in Geneva at the IPU head office, so they warrant the information as best they can. They sometimes conduct field visits to countries that are affected, where parliamentarians might be at risk. You can see through the information that would have been distributed to you that there's a generic approach to this: a summary of the case, the facts as presented, and the decision that has been rendered by the committee. These folks on the committee, the 10 of them, are chosen for their human rights expertise.
In the past, we've had Canadians such as Robert Douglas George Stanbury, an MP; and Senator Joan Neiman. The committee was established in 1975, and since then we've had people such as Senator Sharon Carstairs and the Honourable Irwin Cotler serve as its president. There are a number of distinguished human rights experts who have served over the years and who continue to serve on the committee.