The report lists twenty-eight countries and territories with some of the world's most pressing crises affecting women and children.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

UNICEF spokesman Brian Hansford says pneumonia and diarrhea remain the world's two greatest killers of young children.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

But first, we visit a website for children to explore the world of advertising.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

They are popular with children of all ages around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Before the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into force in 1989, most of the world thought children should be seen and not heard.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Other organizations like World Vision are also focusing on the needs of children.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Pneumonia is the world's leading cause of death among children.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

She says raising the global breast-feeding rate to 90 percent would prevent the deaths of an estimated 13 percent of all children under the age of five in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

You have to step up. You have to serve." He said groups like the Clinton Global Initiative are making a difference around the world by working with business to cut dangerous emissions, empowering entrepreneurs with micro-loans, and giving hope to some of the world's poorest children.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04