 This growing trend of intimidation and reprisals against civil society and human rights defenders who cooperate with the UN is a very alarming one. In my view, it is designed to deter members of the civil society from actually cooperating with the UN and that's certainly the effect. It's regrettably a global phenomenon. And although I mentioned that 38 countries are specified in the report, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Far more cases of intimidation reprisals are taking place. It's troubling to us that it happens not just in the field, in some faraway places, but under our noses and under the noses of the entire international community at UN headquarters. There are many ways that governments seek to intimidate or carry out reprisals against their citizens who have worked with the UN. They can be rather minor ones. They can be perhaps just a warning telephone call or it can be preventing travel, either for a short time or a long-term travel ban. It can be denial of medical assistance. And in one or two cases, we have seen sexual assault, torture, imprisonment and even death in some cases. And although we are an inter-governmental body, we rely in many areas, whether it's peacekeeping, peacemaking, development, human rights, humanitarian assistance. We need civil society and we need the voices of civil society to understand what's properly going on in countries where we are most active.