Okay, let me talk a little bit about, particularly, what CIDA has been doing, because that's where our major investment in human rights is.
Since 1999, Canada has contributed about $4.5 million to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia. We were very pleased with the establishment of that office and were supportive of its activity, and we contributed to it. Close coordination with the office has allowed Canada to raise priority issues such as extrajudicial executions and threats against human rights defenders, to promote human rights training for the military, and to ensure that the office and the whole institutionality of the multilateral system is addressing those important questions.
UNICEF is also an important actor in the whole area of child protection in Colombia. It's very much an issue of victims of abuse in Colombia. So we've provided $1.2 million to protect children affected by violence in Colombia. And we have given $1.5 million to UNICEF to support the implementation and monitoring of reporting mechanisms for children in armed conflict and to follow up on UN Resolution 1612, which specifically addresses the question of child rights in Colombia.
Moreover, CIDA has given $5.8 million to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. I referred to the refugee situation and the displaced people in Colombia. These people are also victims of that ongoing civil conflict, and this responds to the needs of internally displaced people. It provides Plan International Canada with $2.5 million over five years to support preventive measures to help youth avoid becoming participants in violence and conflict in that country. This is just a sample of the kind of work we're doing.
Also, through the global peace and security fund that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade administers, we're very active in the whole area of security cooperation with Colombia, and that allows us to address important elements of the human rights situation there.
We've invested heavily in the OAS mission that's active in Colombia, which has overseen a demobilization of the paramilitary structures in that country. And although that's an ongoing and incomplete process, I think the OAS has played a critical role.
There's been some flow-back, more into criminal activity than into paramilitary activity. Of course there's a complex interrelationship between human rights abuse, ideological forces, and criminal narcotrafficking forces in that country. But through that contribution to the OAS, Canada has been able to play an important contribution role in the demobilization of paramilitaries in that country.