Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. It is an excellent question. I want to add to my initial remarks by asking you to be our voice within the Government of Canada to expand Canada's feminist international assistance policy. The international assistance policy itself should have a much wider rea

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The purpose I mentioned in the very beginning is that the constitution of Kosovo enjoys and gives equal rights to all citizens of Kosovo, regardless of their ethnic or religious background. Kosovo has one of the most advanced constitutions in the entire region of the southeastern

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's like taking one step forward and ten steps backwards. Unfortunately, that is the approach that we are facing at the global level. A big step forward has been made, when rape has been recognized as a tool of war, after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where 44,000 women had be

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In regard to the stigma, we have moved along, starting from 2011, and have been considering the taboo topic that has been kept since the end of the war, since 1999. It was a turning point not only for our institution but for the survivors, themselves, back in 2011, specifically b

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Actually, you have touched upon a topic that has been very close to my heart for the entire term of my presidency, for the five years from 2011 to 2016, and it continues even after I ended my mandate, for these past three years. The estimated number of survivors of sexual violen

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Anita. It's my real pleasure to see you. I am very honoured to be here today with Ambassador Hiseni at this subcommittee on international human rights. Allow me to express my deepest thanks and gratitude, on behalf of all the institutions of Kosovo and the p