Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's a very big question. I think the starting point, though, is what we're seeing right now with the Human Rights Council and the resolution that was passed yesterday for an investigation mechanism. We need to make our multilateral spaces have teeth. They need to use the str

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We could share a lot more with you, in terms of what your assistance has done, at least through us. The impact is profound. I'm incredibly grateful for the support, and for the trust the Canadian government has had in us.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  May I add a point?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Just very quickly, even the pressure that comes from countries that claim to care comes in siloed ways. It doesn't come in the high-security spaces; it comes in the women's spaces. It's like parallel universes that are existing, and we need to combine those. Thank you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. The sanctions in Iran are so profound right now, and the crackdown from the state systematically, that the idea of civil society organizations per se is itself very different. That said, absolutely, carve-outs for humanitarian, civic action, etc., should be there. Car

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  May I add to that?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  At ICAN, because of the funding that we receive from different countries and from private sources, we have been able to get money into the country since September 2021. We were getting money in before, including Canadian support, but we've been getting money in since September 20

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, men are supporting women in Iran. It's not the first women-led revolution in the world, but it is the first revolution where the clarion call for women's rights is unifying everybody. It has taken 43 years—three generations—of women's resistance to get men to stand

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There is the global terrorism index and the global peace index that are produced. I can share the details of the organization that provides that kind of ranking. It's an annual study that comes out that we draw on.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Anything that can be specific and targeted to individuals and their ecosystem of friends and family and so forth is the direction to go. The types of sanctions that we've had historically, even if they don't.... For example, you have banking sanctions that were not meant to affec

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. We know from studies that have been done that today only 3% of the world's population lives in countries with open conditions for civil society action and that generally global peacefulness has been declining for 11 of the past 14 years. That is a trend line that com

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. First, they closed the schools. Then they stopped women from going to work. Then they came to put the ban on women going to parks. The latest news from Afghanistan is that women aren’t allowed to buy SIM cards. This is the Afghanista