Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, I'm Beth Woroniuk and I'm a steering committee member of the Women, Peace and Security Network of Canada.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, as well, to the committee for undertaking this important and timely study, and for the invitation to appear before you today. By way of introduction, I'm a volunteer with the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada. Our network is mad

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I agree very much that this article caused a great ripple through many circles in New York at the United Nations and around the world because it was very much a call for support for the UN as it engages in reform processes. I think it's doubly import

Foreign Affairs committee  I think a context-by-context and mission-by-mission clarification has to be made there, because there is a real danger in many cases to women on the ground if they relate to and associate with military forces. You have to be very careful in how that's spelled out and how that's d

Foreign Affairs committee  The first thing we have to do is establish what it is we are trying to achieve within the time-bound period, so we start with the results, and then we go to the indicators used to track those results, rather than starting with the indicators. That's one of the problems with the c

Foreign Affairs committee  I think this is a great opportunity for Canada. One of the challenges with the women, peace, and security agenda is to bring in some of the other human rights instruments, such as the Beijing declaration and platform for action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of how we get this across as a key message, I think it's important for the ministers to talk about this. I understand that there's something like broadcast policy announcements. This was never done with the previous C-NAP. Many of the people interviewed for the mid-term

Foreign Affairs committee  Just quickly, one of the themes of the three reviews that were conducted last year by the United Nations is how, as a global community, we have not invested enough in conflict prevention. Some of the good practices that are emerging on how we stop wars before they become really v

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd be happy to appear in front of the committee again.

National Defence committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, committee members and fellow witnesses. Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before you today. I coordinate the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada. We're a volunteer network of over 20 organizations and another 60-plus individuals. Our

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I am not an expert on the Mali mission. However, on supporting women in peacekeeping, I will comment generally that we know there is more work to be done. There is more that the UN could and should be doing. It's important that we have initiatives li

National Defence committee  As I mentioned, I'm not an expert on the specifics of the Mali situation, but we have heard consistently that the UN could do more across the board. There have been concerns raised that as budgets for peace support operations are decreased, one of the first places where there are

National Defence committee  First, I think it's important that the only dangers women encounter be the ones they signed up for. From talking to women deploying to peace operations, I think they are quite willing to take on the risks of all peacekeepers, but they should be kept safe in barracks and not have

National Defence committee  Sorry, I'm....

National Defence committee  I'll just add that in 2015 there were three major United Nations studies done, and I'm sure you've had lots of people who have referenced the high-level panel on peace operations. Another study done that same year was on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. One