Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for that question. I don't have too many details. What I would say is that Canada chairs the UN's working group on women, peace, and security. I'm sure it's a good opportunity to exchange experiences, best practices, and so forth with our partners. Of course, we have a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I may, I'll just say a few words, because this is not an area under my current responsibilities. But in a previous life, if I may say so, I was director general of global issues at Foreign Affairs at the time when the Kimberley Process was being developed. I think this is one

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  To put it simply, it's an international agreement through which all diamonds that are produced and are to be exported have a certificate to guarantee that they're not conflict minerals.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  From our programming perspective, we work closely with the U.K. on the conflict minerals issue. We've worked with international organizations, in particular the International Organization for Migration. We have supported an OECD project that includes countries like Belgium and Fr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. As you probably know, the national action plan is general in nature. It doesn't, of course, focus on one particular country or one region. The implementing departments—Foreign Affairs, CIDA, National Defence, and Public Safety—have developed their own action plans and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. I will let my colleague Pat Malikail speak to that as well. I think there's a willingness in the DRC to address this issue. It's a complicated one, and so far, the situation remains of grave concern. Patricia might want to add something.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for that question. I refer to our support for MONUSCO, and what I can add to this is that under the Canadian police arrangement, we have five Canadian police officers deployed with the UN mission in eastern DRC—MONUSCO—of whom two are women. The officers are employed i

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. Absolutely. I referred to two specific projects. One had to do with child protection and prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in the DRC, and the second one, as you rightly pointed out, had to do with equipping the national police. We do that with an NGO called Se

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before starting our short presentation, I would like to inform the committee members that the presentation that was distributed to you is a little different than the one I'm going to make because I had instead understood that the committee wanted an update

National Defence committee  On the de-mining side, just yesterday I met with a gentleman who works with GlobalMedic, which is a Canadian NGO, and he said they are part of the MAG effort, the Mines Advisory Group, which is already de-mining in Libya—

National Defence committee  It will be from the DFAIT budget. There are two programs, as I mentioned. All the non-conventional weapons efforts will come from the global partnership program, and the de-mining MANPAD issues will be addressed through our global peace and security fund.

National Defence committee  As I said, there's a total of ten assessment missions. They will include experts from the UN and in some cases from different countries. We have expressed an interest in being part of the assessment missions on public security and rule of law, as well as electoral and constitutio

National Defence committee  If I may add, the UN-led process of assessing the needs with the Libyans will take a couple more months, unfortunately.

National Defence committee  I think what we have in mind is the framework of cooperation through the United Nations. I have referred to the various assessment missions that will happen between now and the end of this year. The main point is for the Libyans to identify clearly what their needs are. Once we k

National Defence committee  No. There were conversations, though, especially when Minister Bairdwas in Tripoli to discuss what Canada was ready to do on the weapons side of things. He also referred to the fact that we are ready to support the electoral process and the constitutional discussions and the part