Foreign Affairs committee  I think there is language in the post-2015 sustainable development goals that does address young people, adolescents. What I was pointing out is that the language is disproportionate in terms of what is there for young girls as opposed to young boys; boys seem to have an educat

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, sir, for your question. This is indeed an extremely hot topic as we speak. In the quest for getting a democratic and engaged process worldwide, the development of sustainable development goals and the indicators related to that has been one of the most involved proces

Foreign Affairs committee  Madam, thank you very much for your comments. I completely agree with you in terms of the innovations and strategies. I would say that perhaps the order in which these have to be included within the curricula and programs in the countries has to be culturally contextualized and

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Hawn, thank you so much for that question. I'm glad you asked it because I've been asked this before. The answer to that is absolutely not. It's a lot like some of the religious misinformation around vaccines. The campaign against polio vaccines, that there is some idea that

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, thank you. In particular, what has been successful in the last decade for child mortality reduction is immunization. The scaling up of vaccinations and the provision of these vaccines to countries that would have had no hope of ever getting them through GAVI and other mecha

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning. I am very grateful for the opportunity to appear before your committee. I am sorry that I couldn't be in Ottawa in person. I'll say a word about our centre as we start. I am the chair of global child health and policy at our Centre for Global Child Heal