I mean, the protection we have as a humanitarian aid organization is actually the fact that we are a neutral, impartial and recognized aid organization. This is the protection we have everywhere we go. It's the work that we do. It's the fact that we deliver medical care, impartially, to anyone who needs it. This allows us to negotiate access into many places where we work.
In North Darfur in particular right now, as I said and as you highlighted, we had to evacuate from El Fasher. We had to evacuate from Zamzam. It is just another demonstration that the basic humanitarian principles that underpin international and humanitarian law, that underpin the idea of a global humanitarian sector in the first place and that underpin the idea that an organization such as ours is actually capable of delivering medical aid and assistance where it's needed most are being completely undermined. This is a very clear example. We're watching it unfold in real time.
It's also not the only example. We have come under attack in many other conflict zones in many other parts of the world. We're seeing a gradual, I would say, but probably accelerating erosion of the basic principles that should protect humanitarian assistance and protect neutral and impartial humanitarian care.
In answer to your second question, about what should be done, this is why it's worth reiterating that these principles, the basic principles of IHL, need to be upheld. Canada, as a member state of the international community, needs to be at the table for just upholding international humanitarian law and finding a way, as my colleagues here have already mentioned, for violators to be held to account. This requires some of that same multilateral work. It also requires work with the close allies who've been mentioned in other ways here. It's central. It's central to not only the specifics of the conflict we're seeing in Sudan right now but also to the very idea that when there are humanitarian emergencies, assistance and humanitarian aid can reach the people who need it.