In the last two years, more than one hundred forty countries have signed a United Nations treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Of the hundreds of persons arrested, only eight were brought to trial.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Thousands of persons were arrested and put into prison camps.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Clinton called the trafficking of persons for forced labor,sexual exploitation and other illicit purposes "modern-day" slavery that spans the globe and affects every country including the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"Of course,we don't know what doses they've received, but the only persons at risk of acute radiation effects are the workers."

VOA: special.2011.03.16

This makes it a great choice of exercise for people with special needs, like pregnant women,older adults, and persons who are overweight.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Persons suffering from chronic stress produce too much of these hormones for too long.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The government of the United States, including the military and naval forces, will recognize and protect the freedom of such persons, and will interfere in no way with any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

About one quarter of the presumed dead are still considered missing persons, never to be heard from again.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Many of the infected persons had recently visited Mexico, which is the epicenter of the outbreak.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

Masood adds that Hobrooke's focus while in Pakistan the plight of internally displaced persons is critical to the wider U.S.interest of ridding Pakistan of terrorism.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

But recent legal documents have uncovered a slew of new evidence incriminating military officials and politicians, and helping to clarify the fates of many of the country's thousands of missing persons.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

The president took his campaign for health care reform to the headquarters of the American Association of Retired Persons, a powerful organization representing the interests of Americans over the age of 50.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"However,if we begin to see numbers of people who are getting infected who have not any contact with such persons, then this really becomes much stronger evidence that we are seeing community to community spread."

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

Among those invited by the president to hear the speech in person were a number of Americans who the White House said would benefit from Democratic-sponsored reform , including persons struggling to pay medical bills or denied coverage under the current insurance system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10