The director of the Harare-based Research and Advocacy Unit,Tony Reeler, says a review of investigations by numerous rights groups shows that torture and gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe have been perpetrated for decades on what he calls an epidemic scale.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Burma has been increasing pressure on Karen rebels to end decades of fighting, ahead of next year's controversial Burmese elections.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Censorship has been a problem in Thailand off and on for decades, even without emergency laws.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been sounding the alarm on bluefin tuna for decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

At Notre Dame Sunday, President Obama took on the issue that has dogged his visit and sharply divided and polarized Americans for decades - abortion.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

"For decades, rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

"If you contrast what is happening in this crisis to what we saw in the last major global crises of the last several decades, I think you are seeing more action now on a broader scale,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

But,as factory bosses are forced to offer higher pay to prevent strikes, (what does this mean for the faltering global economy?) The West has relied on cheap goods from China to help fuel the boom times of the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26