Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll go first on the first question. One of the problems at the moment is both, I would say, a kind of concerted lack of political will to treat all children equally in this context, but also that some very concrete recommendations involve, as I mentioned before, oversight over

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Maybe if I could come in on that question because I have a report coming out on this very issue in hopefully two months.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The very short answer is that there needs to be much more oversight over this process that is happening at the moment. For the children who do end up in these centres, as there are a number of them now, it's often dependent on their clan and their economic status whether they end

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Obviously I am not a humanitarian expert, but this is definitely something we've looked into. I'm not sure whether there's been a diminished space. I was doing research in 2011, looking at all the gatekeepers' communities in Mogadishu at the time. I would say the difference is

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Brilliant. Why I raise this is that, obviously, a lot of the returnees from Kenya are ending up in internally displaced camps. I will end with three recommendations. First, make sure that Canada, in terms of its engagement with the Somali government but obviously also with co

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't even have the excuse of being in Mogadishu at the moment. Honourable subcommittee members, thank you very much for inviting me to present on the current situation of human rights in Somalia. Members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me to appear today.