Last year, Selena Gomez became the youngest person to be named a United Nations Children's Fund Ambassador in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

The United Nations Children's Fund says nearly seventy-two million children were not in school in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Children's Defense Fund hired her to build a library on a farm it owns in the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

And the UN's children's fund head said countries like Pakistan could do more to address children's health and education interests.

BBC: NEWS | South Asia | UN warns of triple child scourges

Human trafficking remained a problem in every African country, the UN's Children's Fund, Unicef, said in its April's report.

BBC: Undated depiction of slaves in captivity

According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), around 40m children in sub-Saharan Africa get no basic teaching.

ECONOMIST: No school, no future