Foreign Affairs committee  I would add a couple of things to that. One of the really important things that can be done is to use Canada's voice to shift the narrative. In the past, there was often this excuse that there weren't any capacitated women, or there weren't any women who were ready to be at the

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Foreign Affairs committee  Randi, you go first.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely, and thank you for the opportunity. The first thing to mention is the intersection between gender equality and violent extremism. What is common to these groups is an agenda that is against women's rights and against gender equality. What we also find is that, as a re

Foreign Affairs committee  How do we fit together? UN Women chairs a UN standing committee on women, peace, and security. UNDP, DPKO, and OHCHR, all the major entities, are on that standing committee. We all coordinate our efforts. We work very closely with DPKO, in particular, on two initiatives. Train

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. I'm going to give you a couple of examples and then I'm going to hand it over to Randi, because the UNDP actually is the broader development rule of law justice focus. The UN system in the past few years has actually undertaken an institutional arrangement of UNDP a

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll begin with that comment about the Security Council bid, and I fully see that perspective about being weary. I would reiterate that if the theme of women, peace, and security is at the heart of Canada's bid, walking the talk on those values will be incredibly important, and w

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting us here to testify in front of you today. My statement to you is going to be informed by my role as the head of the secretariat to the global study on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 13