Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not sure we have someone around the table—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chair, we will have to come back to you with a response.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Under these circumstances, I would remind him—and this has already been addressed by some of our colleagues—that Canada has a variety of tools. We're able to intervene diplomatically through our ambassadors, public servants, or ministers themselves. As noted during the discussio

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  To finish, my colleague Sylvia Cesaratto will speak to you about the situation in Venezuela.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chair, with your permission, we'll now move on to the situation in Syria. I'll turn the floor over to my colleague, Sébastien Beaulieu.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chair, we can move to neighbouring Turkey with David Morgan.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We'll now turn to my colleague, Angelica Liao-Moroz for South Sudan.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon Mr. Chair and members of the subcommittee. Thank you for inviting Global Affairs Canada representatives to update you on key situations of concern related to international human rights, with a focus on developments over the summer while Parliament was recessed. A

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The dialogue as mentioned is led by President Museveni of Uganda, supported by a facilitator, Benjamin Mkapa, former president of Tanzania. It has been ongoing for some time. The main challenge is to have the Burundian government accept the participation of the main opposition gr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One thing I can mention is that Canada is directly supporting women and girls in Burundi, and in the broader region as well, with quite an extensive program implemented by CECI, the Montreal-based organization, precisely looking at sexual violence and working with women and girls

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Certainly I cannot speculate on the state of mind of the minister. The government is certainly troubled by the whole situation. Whenever a deployment like this one, proposed first by the African Union, is put forward, or a deployment by the UN, the most sensitive aspect is to sec

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can confirm that the department is following the situation very closely. I would point out that the government, through Minister Dion, yesterday announced new funding to support the United Nations in the type of activity that allow us to follow closely the evolution of explosiv

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to add that a concrete position taken by the Minister of Foreign Affairs is to recognize that there is a regional responsibility. In light of that, he spoke with interveners in the region to make them admit that the East African Community and the African Union also have to

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One thing I could mention is that some of the observers on the ground were free enough to be able to gather facts for the production of a report by the UN Independent Investigation on Burundi as well, as mentioned earlier in the statement by Ms. Norton. Through that kind of unde

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We have no diplomatic mission in Burundi. Our presence is from Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, which is a neighbouring country. You can access the country by roads. Our ambassador accredited to Burundi is based in Nairobi. We have no underground diplomatic presence. We have the ca