Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Welcome, everybody. I am very pleased to be here once again for our study on women human rights defenders. Today we have two witnesses. First, Fernanda Elena San Martin Carrasco is coming to us by video conference from Bolivia. I want to extend the apologies of the committee t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My sincere apologies. We're not getting the French interpretation now, so I am going to suspend the meeting for just a moment while we work out the interpretation.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Again, I am very sorry about this. We'll just suspend for a moment. We will resume. My apologies for the delay. While we are working out the interpretation of the Spanish, we will ask Mr. Joshua Cooper to please do his 10-minute introduction, and then we will try to go back to

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very, very much, Teresita Quintos Deles. I think I speak for the committee when I say that we have great admiration for the work you and the other women are doing in the Philippines. We will be following your future endeavours very closely. I want to thank you for your

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The meeting is adjourned.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. For the final question, we'll go to Ms. Hardcastle for five minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Unfortunately, we have to hold that answer because we're at five minutes. We will go to Mr. Tabbara for five minutes, and perhaps you can address that in one of your future answers.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We'll now go to Mr. Sweet for five minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. We're now going into the second round, which is five-minute questions. We'll start with Mr. Fragiskatos.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. We will now move to Ms. Hardcastle for seven minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We're now going to move over to Ms. Khalid, who has seven minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Quintos Deles. We're very pleased that we were able to bring you all the way from the Philippines here to be that voice. As you know, this is a televised committee, so hopefully that will allow a lot of these issues to be aired. I'd like to go to questio

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Welcome, everybody. I'm very pleased to be here today as we continue our study on women human rights defenders. We've been hearing from women human rights defenders around the world. Today we have Teresita Quintos Deles from the Philippines. She is a presidential adviser on the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. I want to thank both of you for your very insightful testimony and the courage of the work that you do. We only have three minutes left, which is just the right amount of time to now view the video that Ms. Nasir has provided for us. [Video presentation]

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. That's your time. We'll go to Ms. Hardcastle for the final round of questions. You have seven minutes.