Syria: Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres: The grim milestone announced Friday by U.N. officials means as many Syrian children have been uprooted from their homes or families as the number of children who live in Wales, or in Boston and Los Angeles combined, said Antonio Guterres, the head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, according to Times Colonist. Roughly half of all the nearly 2 million registered refugees from Syria are children and 740,000 of those are under the age of 11, according to the U.N. refugee and children's agencies and GENEVA - It's shaping up to be a lost generation: The number of child refugees fleeing Syria's violence has now topped the 1 million mark. "Can you imagine Wales without children? Can you imagine Boston and Los Angeles without children?" Guterres told reporters in Geneva. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.