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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 31
 
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
 

The Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development met at 1:04 p.m. this day, in Room 253-D, Centre Block, the Chair, Scott Reid, presiding.

 

Members of the Subcommittee present: Hon. Irwin Cotler, Nina Grewal, Russ Hiebert, Wayne Marston, Ève Péclet, Scott Reid and David Sweet.

 

In attendance: House of Commons: Miriam Burke, Procedural Clerk. Library of Parliament: Melissa Radford, Analyst; Erin Shaw, Analyst.

 

Delegation: Stop the Killings Network - Canada: Merry Mia-Clamor, Coordinator, Council on Health and Development; Angelina Bisuña Ipong, Coordinator, Association of Ex-Detainees Against Detention and Arrest (SELDA); Reuel Norman Marigza, General Secretary, United Church of Christ in the Philippines; Shaun Fryday, Minister, Beaconsfield United Church.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Subcommittee met with representatives of a delegation from the Philippines.
 

The delegates made statements and answered questions.

 

Irwin Cotler moved, — That the motions adopted by the Subcommittee on December 8, 2011, the first regarding the brutal and inhuman treatment of the civil population of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (“DPRK” or “North Korea”), and the second concerning the fate of Ms. Shin and her two daughters in North Korea, be presented to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, recommending that it report these matters to the House and request a comprehensive Government response thereto pursuant to Standing Order 109.

 

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to, by a show of hands: YEAS: 6; NAYS: 0.

 

At 2:08 p.m., the Subcommittee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Julie Lalande Prud'homme
Committee Clerk

 
 
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