Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to direct my question to the Equality Fund.
I know that you have a unique mechanism, particularly because of how directly you support women on the ground—activists, human rights defenders—around the world. That gives you a unique perspective and also intel that's coming back to you.
One of the things you mentioned in your remarks was our human rights defenders stream. I'm very proud that came out of a recommendation, a report from this committee, to have a stream of immigration specifically for human rights defenders. I'm wondering if you could elaborate on how you would see that being expanded, not just in numbers—I would be so bold as to say I'd go even further than the numbers you were suggesting; we need to do this at scale—but also in the mechanism.
We know that human rights defenders often are not like other asylum seekers. They want to stay in their country. They want to return the moment it's safe, but they also have more urgency. When they need to get out, they need to get out now.
Is there a mechanism that you would see where, rather than being part of the asylum program, this would be a separate stream that would specifically target human rights defenders? What would that look like?