Roy Cullen moved, That Bill C-8, in Clause 437, be amended by replacing lines 15 to 24 on page 612 with the following: " (a) for the purposes of subsection (4), permitting the acquisition of control or the acquisition or increase of substantial investments, or prescribing the circumstances under which that subsection does not apply or the societies or other entities in respect of which that subsection does not apply, including prescribing societies or other entities on the basis of the activities they engage in; and (b) for the purposes of subsection (5), permitting the acquisition of control or the acquisition or increase of substantial investments, ...[+++]or prescribing the circumstances under which that subsection does not apply or the societies or other entities in respect of which that subsection does not apply, including prescribing societies or other entities on the basis of the activities they engage in" .

The IRC's women's protection team in Lebanon was told of a young girl who was gang-raped and forced to stagger home naked—heightening her shame in a society where modesty is so valued.In one extreme case, the IRC was told of a father who shot his daughter when an armed group approached to prevent the " disgrace" of her being raped.

7. Calls for particular attention to be paid to the plight of Palestinian refugees who have again sought refuge abroad; calls on donors generously to support ongoing efforts by the UN Relief and Works Agency to minimise the suffering and displacement of this particularly vulnerable group; calls for attention also to be paid to the recent waves of internally displaced persons of Kurdish origin following bombings in new areas of Syria;

H. whereas humanitarian organisations have been unable to distribute food consignments for five months; whereas the United Nations Refugee Agency is still unable to reach a large group trapped in an area known as the Parrot's Beak close to Guinea's border with Sierra Leone and Liberia,

8. Calls on the EU to give its full support to prompt action on complex issues such as extreme poverty, trafficking in human beings, protection of minorities, refugees, freedom of expression as well as the provision of assistance to needy groups, such as victims of torture, and emergency responses to situations of genocide and gross violations of human rights;

The four main objectives or components of the program are on-site education (including workshops, courses and presentations), group facilitation (including leading self-help and community discussion groups), community organizing (including coalition-building, organizing self-help groups, and establishing telephone crisis lines and shelters) and a resource base (including video and audio tapes, pamphlets and manuals, as well as acting as the end-of-phone support for front-line volunteers).