Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't know if you want to answer, Mr. Morley.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Clearly the first pillar is violated on a daily basis by the Government of South Sudan. The second pillar should not even be talked about because even if there was a desire to train soldiers to respond to IHL or to provide capacity building to the state of South Sudan, that's b

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I must confess that I'm not quite familiar with this exact citation. I would believe that whoever wrote it from my colleagues most likely meant that there was a need for accountability for the commanders—not for the children but for the commanders—who are responsible for abductin

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would like to add to your testimony, Mr. Morley. I was working in some of the POC sites very recently. Those are extremely bleak places. Those are places from which people cannot leave. I'm meeting lots of youth who have been stranded in those camps, with no trees and lots of

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In the case of South Sudan, for its 2016-17 budget exercise, the Government of South Sudan has decided to spend almost half of its budget on the acquisition of military equipment and the payment of the soldiers who are currently fighting this war. If my memory is not mistaken, on

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  South Sudan has experienced conflict for the better part of the past 60 years. This is a place that has been at war with the north, obviously, for a long time, but even internally it has had lots of intercommunal fighting, often cattle raiding or wife raiding, and lots of cultura

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Clearly, we do not preserve evidence. We collect evidence through testimony. We're not an investigating body of the likes of the commission for human rights. As you may have seen, the UN Commission on Human Rights was renewed in Geneva. There is a commission that was established

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the Government of South Sudan has been quite clever in using Ethiopia and Egypt recently to avoid any consequences at the United Nations Security Council. They've found allies in both of those governments. IGAD, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, as you know,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Without external pressure from states such as Canada, I don't think that will be the case.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry. I'm not used to using these facilities. The fact that the vice-president was in Munich recently and the fact that there have been no sanctions against the main commanders and the top commanders of both the government and the opposition have unfortunately emboldened th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The UN unfortunately has lost a lot of its credibility in the eyes of a lot of the actors on the ground. Its failure to pass the arms embargo despite hanging this threat over the heads of all the parties for a period of time has emboldened perpetrators. For UNMISS, under the new

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the mission has been stuck in a mode of trying to create a working relationship with a government that had no intention of working with the mission in the first place. By allowing the government to impose a number of restrictions over the years on the mission, the mission

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I have just returned from South Sudan a few days ago. I've had the chance to spend three weeks in the field interviewing people with disabilities and elderly people in IDP locations located in Unity state, but also in Malakal and in Juba. This was my sixth tri