As South Africa was setting the stage for the craze of the World Cup to begin, Vietnam was teaming up with more than 100 other nations across the world to harness the power of football in a call for education for all. (On World Vision's Asia / Pacific site)

World Vision’s Charles Kariuki, a CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards winner, has called upon journalists and communicators to use their profession to tell the story of children. (On World Vision's Africa website)

With the support of the school board and World Vision, some 20 students on the Student Council of the 'Sveti Sava' primary school in Kotor Varoš, Vrbas, are seeking to bring joy to their school. (On World Vision's Middle East / East Europe website)

From cluster bombs to child labour, Lebanese children have shed light on the issues affecting children in Lebanon in an unprecedented child-led report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. (On World Vision's Middle East / East Europe website)

A pioneering anti-trafficking training course, held recently, opened the eyes of Lebanese policemen on Lebanon’s hidden phenomenon: human trafficking. (On World Vision's Middle East / East Europe website)

At the age of only eleven years, Irene was forced to run away from her home to escape what the community made her believe was a traditional obligation - female genital mutilation.

International relief and development agency World Vision acknowledges the generous impulse to help Haitian children displaced by last week’s massive earthquake by rushing adoptions of children who seem to have been orphaned in the disaster. However, the agency warns that this may lead to adoptions that inadvertently separate families or risk a lapse in child protection, with unintended consequences.

Climate change has the potential to make poverty much worse. The latest edition of Global Future examines issues around climate change and how those living in poverty could be affected.

The lives of millions of children in the developing world could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure provision of such low-cost, simple interventions as better nutrition and skilled birth attendants – that even the poorest countries could implement.

Reducing violence and risk of violence towards children in Armenia is an area of focus for World Vision for the coming three years through a 1 million Euro project funded by the European Commission.

With posters, plays and pictures, about 200 Lebanese and Palestinian children celebrated tolerance and diversity at World Vision’s Arts for Peace Exhibition held recently at a centre 30 kilometres north of Beirut (this story is on the World Vision Middle East / East Europe site).

Youth gathered at a forum to raise awareness of child participation among the various national and local agencies represented at the event (this story is on the World Vision Asia/Pacific site).

A weak and ambiguous G8 communiqué on African aid means millions more children in developing countries face illness and death from preventable causes, Christian humanitarian agency World Vision said today.

The sordid and sensational topic of child sex trafficking remains one of the most discussed in the Asia-Pacific region, but many more forms of human trafficking fail to attract attention or action, according to a new review by international aid agency World Vision.