The family violence initiative brings together 15 federal partners to discuss how we can jointly advance issues of common interest. I think you've heard that through other witnesses. The family violence initiative's lead department is the Public Health Agency of Canada. We're an active contributor in that forum.
With respect to our role in particular—and you were referring to recommendation 38 of the UPR—we've been playing a very strong role over the past year in helping collect sex-disaggregated data. You may have heard or seen that we launched the publication Women in Canada, for which we get support from 18 departments. It's a very comprehensive compendium of sex-disaggregated data, and we have a chapter specifically to address the issue of aboriginal women. We also more recently completed—through Statistics Canada, some of our federal partners, and the provinces and territories—the update of the publication called Measuring violence against women: statistical trends. The goal of this contribution, if I can speak this way, is really to help inform the work that is taking place in government.
One of the key roles we have as a department is to ensure the government-wide implementation of gender-based analysis, which allows us in a range of fields across our mandate to look specifically at how we can better integrate gender and diversity considerations. We put a lot of focus, in advancing this work, on the specific issues affecting aboriginal women. This is what I would single out as one of the most important contributions from Status of Women Canada.