Youth unemployment worldwide has increased during the past decade.

UNDP has undergone continuous reorganization during the past decade.

The system of international security has changed drastically in the past decade.

The past decade has seen a growing demand for United Nations humanitarian assistance.

During the past decade, drug abuse had been on a sharp upward trend.

The number of States parties to treaties has tripled over the past decade.

Fortunately, however, remarkable progress has been made in this domain in the past decade.

During the past decade, the country's limited forests have decreased at an alarming rate.

I also think that the United Nations has learned the lessons of the past decade.

Over the past decade and half, some developing countries have emerged as significant sources of FDI.

The past decade has been significant for China's reform, opening up and modernization process. It has also been an important decade for the development process of Chinese youth.

The review and recommendations reflect a market environment that has become increasingly complex over the past decade.

23.51 The number of States parties to the above mentioned treaties has tripled over the past decade.

Most of us now that the Me Decade is well in the past now we actually do this.

In the past decade, infant and maternal mortality had been halved, while child vaccination rates had almost doubled.

In most regions, jobs created over the past decade were characterized by low productivity and lack of social protection.

During the past decade, we have seen a number of advances in women's access to and participation in media.

As a result of armed conflicts in the past decade, 2 million children were dead and 6 million maimed.

The role of civil society has been critical in the creation of an enabling environment over the past decade.

In 2004, the size of the ozone hole was smaller than the average over the past decade, although the total amount of ozone destroyed, which relates to the size, depth and persistence of the ozone hole, was estimated to be much higher than most years in the past decade.

So investors are wondering will future decades be like the past decade? If so, shouldn't investments in equities be shunned?

Over the past decade, the infant mortality rate has been reduced from 126 to 60 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Notwithstanding some worthwhile gains in the past decade, much needs to be done to reach a satisfactory level of preparedness.

Given the developments of the past decade, we now face the possibility that for the past 30 years we have been wrongly imprisoning parents on the basis of a flawed hypothesis.

It was of deep concern that the dangers faced by personnel in the field had increased dramatically over the past decade.

While progress has been made over the past decade in getting more children into school, the pace remains far too slow.

In a number of countries, there has also been a significant increase in participation at local government levels over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the State Council has issued a total of five notices for the elimination of excessive and backward production capacity.

The core achievements of legislation and decision making in gender equality promotion and affirmation of women over the past decade are as follows

The reform of the Security Council has been discussed continuously for well over a decade and debated substantially in the past few years.

More people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the past decade than at any time since the United Nations was founded.

Over the past decade there has not been a discernible shift in responsibilities for health care from the federal to the state level.

Accordingly, training of procurement staff has been an integral part of the procurement reform programme at the United Nations in the past decade.

The government's policy of the past decade aimed at promoting labor migration abroad as a means to deal with the unemployment situation at home.

But that appears to have changed over the past decade. Seduced by China s spectacular growth, the region shifted from US to China centric export growth.

This has become increasingly visible over the past decade, while we have seen evidence of a decline in poverty in other parts of the world.

The disaster confirmed a disturbing trend during the past decade the number of people killed by natural disasters has increased by almost 50 per cent.

During the past decade, his country and people had not only suffered considerably, but also learned many lessons about how to build a common future.

Because and I say this as somebody who worked in finance 500 billion dollars at least has gone into the emerging markets in the past decade.

So I'm going to tell you about one trial, which is probably the most well reported trial in the U.K. news media over the past decade.

Because and I say this as somebody who worked in finance 500 billion dollars at least has gone into the emerging markets in the past decade.

For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.

Thirdly, since the composition of the Group of Eastern European States has doubled over the past decade, that Group should have an additional non permanent seat.

The harsh mathematics of greenhouse gas accumulations in the atmosphere simply does not allow for another lost decade. To get past these challenges this decade, the world and especially the US must create a strong and sustaining partnership with China concerning emissions reduction.

Over the past decade and a half, there had been a surge in such operations and indeed a change of concept, in that operations had become multidimensional.