Justin Forsythe: Nations Agency and Justin Trudeau

justin forsythe: The Canadian government and the prime minister have spoken out very strongly on two big issues one is around refugees and migrants and secondly, is around women and girls, said UN Assistant Secretary General Justin Forsythe, the deputy executive director of UNICEF. The United Nations children's agency is urging Justin Trudeau to press his fellow G7 leaders to do more to help vulnerable and isolated refugee children, according to Huffington Post Canada. Photo Chris Wattie/Reuters All G7 countries need to do more to address the exploitation of children crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, Forsythe said in an interview. A senior UNICEF official wants the prime minister to push for progress on a serious aspect of the global refugee crisis children travelling alone without adult supervision while in Sicily later this month for the G7 summit. Ninety per cent of children making that journey are classified as unaccompanied and face no end of misery, including sexual slavery and detention during their flight, and further discrimination in some European countries, he noted. Forsythe singled out Britain and France as two countries that need to do more, citing the ongoing internal political debates in both as obstacles to progress. Trudeau's impressive leadership on Syrian refugees and his development focus on helping women and girls in poor countries give him the political capital to push his fellow leaders to accept and help settle more unaccompanied child migrants, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.