On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said many of the three million people in the Port-au-Prince area lack food,water, shelter and electricity.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

Mister Ban, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Haitian President Rene Preval led a conference of donors at the U.N.Wednesday.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

In January of this year, the Supreme Court, by the narrowest majority, voted five to four to end the ban.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Recognition of the harm asbestoscan do and the ban on its new uses did not take place until recently.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

The ban in the UAE could affect half a million BlackBerry users while Saudi Arabia has about seven hundred thousand users.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Last week President Obama again called for ending a ban against people in the military who are openly homosexual.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The question was this: did Congress have the power to control or even ban slavery in the new territories?

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The W.H.O.is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Al-Shabab recently ended a ban on airlifts, but a UNICEF spokeswoman, Shantha Bloemen, says there are no guarantees.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

Some lawmakers are proposing to renew a former ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, like what the gunman had.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

This week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Rachel Carson did not live to see how her book influenced the governments decision to ban DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the food crisis has forced millions of families into poverty and hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

But Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday that the evidence is "quite clear" that humans are the main cause of temperatures rising faster than expected.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Recently,Wyclef travelled to Haiti with former President Bill Clinton and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon .

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Some have called for journals to identify ghostwritten articles and ban their authors from future publication.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

On Tuesday, its officers accepted a decision by FINA members to ban high-tech swimsuits next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01