So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.

Regarding the demolition of houses in East Jerusalem in the Silwan region (A 60 271, para. 31), he said that he had visited those houses and that legal proceedings had been launched to stop the demolition.

Now this picture shows the demolition of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's studio in Shanghai earlier this year.

They have wreaked widespread destruction, including the demolition of homes and the destruction of industrial and agricultural areas and infrastructure.

Some types of expertise can also be applied for both military and civilian purposes, for example, demolition engineering, flight training and encryption decryption techniques.

(b) The suppression of freedom of thought, expression, information, association, assembly and movement through fear of arrest, imprisonment, execution, expulsion, house demolition and other sanctions

And the goal at first was just saving it from demolition, but then we also wanted to figure out what we could do with it.

The military occupation was no less harsh the closures, the checkpoints, the confiscations of land and water resources and the demolition of houses continued unabated.

By February 2005, an additional 10 buildings had been demolished in East Jerusalem, including a seven storey building, while another 2,000 demolition orders were outstanding.

Stressing that the mass and barbaric demolition of mosques and other Islamic Shrines in Azerbaijan, by Armenia, for ethnic cleansing is a crime of genocide

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.

We were therefore relieved to note press reports that demolition orders issued for 88 houses in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan would not be carried out.

It should consider also measures to induce Israel to end extrajudicial executions and the demolition of houses, dismantle the settlements and tear down the illegal separation wall.

(b) The suppression of freedom of thought, religion and belief, expression, information, association, assembly and movement through fear of arrest, imprisonment, execution, expulsion, house demolition and other sanctions

The confiscation and demolition of Palestinian property, the arbitrary detentions, the restrictions on freedom of movement and expression and on the right to education were all serious human rights violations.

Collective punishments, including restrictions on movement and the demolition of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, continued in the West Bank, in violation of articles 33 and 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

But the demolition process that has transformed or razed so many of China's old Stalinist economic institutions has not been matched by a demolition of stultifying political structures. Although Chinese leaders speak of One country, two systems as their formula for governing Hong Kong and possibly Taiwan some day their slogan is far more relevant to China itself, given the co existence of a capitalist economic system within a Leninist political system.

Israeli officials are now estimating that such a plan, depending on the width of the trench, will entail the demolition of another 200 to 3,000 homes in Gaza, specifically in the Rafah area.

5.3 States shall prohibit forced eviction, demolition of houses and destruction of agricultural areas and the arbitrary confiscation or expropriation of land as a punitive measure or as a means or method of war.

The lives of Palestinians on their own land were becoming more and more difficult, following confiscation of land, depletion of water resources, razing of crops, uprooting of trees, destruction of infrastructure and demolition of houses.

6. Condemns also the killing of Palestinian civilians and the widespread demolition of homes by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Rafah refugee camp in May 2004 and in the Jabaliya refugee camp in October 2004

Between old and new muddle, and the certain prospect that the demolition of each bad idea merely allows others to take root and grow in its place, the task of the free trader is never finished.

It also noted that the current option of manual segregation of this foam from other demolition material made economies of recovery and destruction very marginal, especially in developed countries where manual labour rates were relatively high.

6. Condemns also the killing of Palestinian civilians and the widespread demolition of homes by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Rafah refugee camp in May 2004 and in the Jabaliya refugee camp in October 2004

Cuba also condemned the expansion of Israeli settlements, the construction of new ones, the confiscation of Palestinian land, the forced expulsion of the Arab population, the denial of freedom of movement and the demolition of dwellings.

Israel must cease all activities in the Palestinian territories which were contrary to international law, including the building of settlements, the construction of the wall and the demolition of Palestinian homes, particularly in and around East Jerusalem.

He was perplexed by the relentless appetite for the demolition of homes, the destruction of property and the violation of rights provided for in international instruments, such as the right to life, freedom, personal security, education and worship.

Addressing more specifically the issue of evictions, the observer indicated that the shanty settlements had been illegally erected in areas reserved for urban development and announcements had been made that they would be subject to demolition in case of need.

This situation is worsened by the financial difficulties faced by Palestinian Authority, which has already been weakened by Israel's incessant attacks on its infrastructure, combined with blockades in the territories and repeated Israeli incursions, particularly those involving the demolition of houses.

In the report under consideration, reference was made to the adverse consequences of action by the occupying Power such as the demolition of homes, structures and medical facilities and the closure of schools, which the occupying forces were turning into military bases.

In their daily lives women were struggling with poverty, unemployed husbands or the loss of their spouses, children at risk, scarce or no food to feed their families, demolition of their houses and shrinking health and other social services, as well as domestic violence.

In that connection his delegation was deeply concerned at the deterioration in the socio economic situation in the territories occupied by Israel, particularly the blockade of populated areas, the introduction of curfews, the demolition of Palestinian homes and the construction of the separation wall.

One of the places that had been under threat from demolition was the camp's Jungle Book Kids Cafe which is run not for profit and provides 200 meals a day, English and French classes, and asylum advice for the hundreds of vulnerable unaccompanied minors in the camp.

Directive on the demolition of buildings, structures and installations containing asbestos and the removal of asbestos or materials containing asbestos therefrom (Council Directive 87 217 EEC (OJ L 85, 28.3.1987, p.40), as amended by Council Directive 91 692 EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p.48))

Israel s government regularly destroyed the family homes of alleged terrorists for years before acknowledging that the policy was damaging its image without deterring terrorist acts. The latest house demolition seems to confirm that Israel s government is resuming the practice of collective punishment that it abandoned a decade ago.

Demolition of Palestinian houses and Israeli provocations in East Jerusalem highlight the need to confront this issue without delay. The focus of Pope Benedict XVI s visit to the Middle East was Jerusalem s importance to Christians, Muslims, and Jews, so that attempts to Judaize the Holy City must stop immediately.

The Conference condemned the acts of demolition and destruction of Palestinian houses, institutions, facilities and lands causing severe losses to the Palestinian economy and expressed its deep concern over the disastrous economic repercussions of these ongoing aggressive practices of the Israeli government and called for their immediate cessation.

After Erdoğan appeared to broker a deal with the protesters regarding the fate of Gezi Park, the planned demolition of which sparked the initial demonstrations, one of my Twitter followers expressed his satisfaction at the outcome and said the demonstrators should now go home, because three weeks is enough. But enough for what?

While the most obvious form of violence was direct physical harm, indirect violence had also had a devastating social and psychological traumatic effect, resulting in fear, anger and depression stemming from the constant sound of bullets and tank fire, the demolition and destruction of their homes and the death of their loved ones.

Mr. Al Emadi (Qatar) said it was deplorable that, in addition to the many abuses committed against the Palestinian people, including confiscation of land, demolition of homes, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention and destruction of fruit trees, Israel had ignored the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and continued to build the separation wall, throwing many Palestinians out of their homes.

With regard to economic and technological aspects of the destruction of building foam, the task force co chair noted that most foam in this area was still in use, but that the current option of manual segregation of this foam from other demolition material made the economies and destruction difficult, the one exception being the salvaging of foam in steel faced sandwich panels.

The Palestinian people had endured more than it could from the prolonged occupation by Israel, the occupying Power, of its territory, the control, destruction and exploitation by Israel of its natural resources, confiscation of its land, demolition of houses, razing of agricultural land, diversion of water resources, uprooting of productive trees, destruction of the livelihoods of Palestinians, bringing the Palestinian economy to the verge of collapse.

Several speakers reported on the particular problems faced by minority groups living there, including environmental degradation and contamination and the associated health problems inequitable distribution of profits and employment forced evictions and the demolition of their homes without prior notice or consultation and without provision of alternative housing or compensation violation of women's and children's rights and the loss of their language and culture.

case (CAT C 29 D 161 2000), where the Committee against Torture found the demolition by a mob of a Roma settlement with the knowledge of the local police and without the police preventing its occurrence to be a violation of article 16 of CAT, and the Corumbiara case, Inter American Commission on Human Rights No. 11556 of 11 March 2004, Report No. 32 04.

Regrettably, those measures had been taken against the backdrop of incessant human rights violations committed by the occupying Israeli forces against the Palestinian people, including the killing of 30 civilians since the Sharm el Sheikh summit and the wounding of at least 241 others, the destruction and demolition of civilian property and the imposition of severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian persons and goods by means of closures, checkpoints and roadblocks.