ASEAN has upheld a policy of engagement with member Burma, while occasionally criticizing the military government's rights abuses.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

But,that hope was dashed recently when Russia's Supreme Court upheld the ban on female train drivers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

As Britain announces it will review its famously flexible libel laws, Sierra Leone's Supreme Court recently upheld the country's criminal libel act, saying the law posed no immediate danger to journalists.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The powerful council, which supervises elections and has wide-ranging powers in the Islamic government, said a random recount of 10 percent of the ballot boxes nationwide upheld Mr.Ahmadinejad's landslide victory over reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

"He has improved information-sharing, increased intelligence support to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, upheld civil liberties, and he played a key role in our effort to update and reorient our intelligence community to meet the threats of our time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Clinton says the broad skepticism among Iranians about the electoral process and the apparent re-election of President Ahmadinejad is unlikely to be quelled by Monday's announcement by Iran's Guardian Council that a partial recount upheld the originally-announced outcome.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29