(i) Land expropriation and encroachment

Mobility and translocation of sand dunes and sand encroachment.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

Any encroachment on the quot one China quot principle endangered the activities of the Organization.

As in the case of cotton, wool is also suffering from the encroachment of synthetic fibres.

Encroachment on the Islamic holy sites will not contribute to peace or stability for the parties concerned.

Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

88. The excessive encroachment of military jurisdiction into criminal matters continues to lead to arbitrary acts and excesses.

Women have led the way to protest corporate encroachment on the rain forest and its life sustaining, planet sustaining environment.

My delegation shares the growing concern at the Security Council's gradual encroachment on the powers and the mandate of the General Assembly.

Nigeria had embarked on an ambitious project to check and reverse the rate of desert encroachment and ensure the sustainable management of forest resources.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

Encroachment by the Council on issues that fall within the purview of other organs of the United Nations, particularly the General Assembly, has regrettably become commonplace.

Roles should, however, be demarcated clearly to ensure complementarity of purpose and support, without any undue influence or encroachment on each other's mandates or spheres of competency.

The international community was most concerned about the wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests and the great hardships created for the people affected by its construction.

No one could object to the construction of the wall in areas coinciding with the Green Line, but its encroachment on Palestinian land and interests brought great hardship for the people and exacerbated the situation.

On the issue of accountability, in particular the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly, my delegation is concerned about the Council's gradual encroachment on the powers and mandate of the General Assembly.

The aim was to split a sovereign State and create two Chinas or one China, one Taiwan at the United Nations that constituted a grave encroachment on China s sovereignty and brutal interference in its internal affairs.

Racist propaganda was responsible for such phenomena as the desecration of cemeteries and religious places, the hardening of immigration laws, the rise in numbers of refugees and increased encroachment on the lands of minority or indigenous communities.

The Parties shall broaden cooperation to safeguard and defend their borders, counteract any encroachment on their borders from outside, taking when necessary the appropriate joint measures of a political and economic nature and in relation to defences.

The wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests creates great hardships for the Palestinian people affected by its construction and exacerbates the situation by placing populations, agricultural land and a part of the West Bank aquifer beyond their reach.

In this connection, the Special Rapporteur strongly feels that, despite the perceived absence of the phenomenon in any country, appropriate preventative measures should be in place to ensure that no future encroachment of children apos s rights will occur.

The defendants thought that the crime of position encroachment and the crime of funds misappropriation are public prosecuted cases, and it should be decided by the public security organ whether or not the case should be withdrawn, rather than the reporter.

From the current French viewpoint, however, laws and regulations based on ethnicity are regarded as an unwelcome encroachment on the Republican ideal. French President Jacques Chirac vehemently opposes quotas for immigrants, out of fear that such a policy would stigmatize groups.

Because of the potential for significant social harassment and human rights violations as well as encroachment on long established procedural rights, persons unduly affected by such measure should be able to challenge them judicially and on an expedited or priority basis.

22. The excessive encroachment of military jurisdiction into criminal matters continues to be a matter of concern, because it assumes competence not only for offences that are not specifically of a military nature, but in relation to civilians having absolutely no military status.

Encroachment on their lands and their displacement from lands should not be resorted to in the name of development projects or perceived security considerations. Where the rights of people have been violated in the name of development, adequate compensation should be granted by those responsible

Various social movements, including unions, students, local communities and environmental, cultural and other groups, were united in a common struggle, involving, inter alia, support for public education, defence against the encroachment on community rights by developers, environmental protection and opposition to the death penalty.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert. While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages though it straddles the Yellow River, the water table is dwindling fast.

Keynes demonstrated that the main cause of bouts of heavy and prolonged unemployment was not worker encroachment on profits, but the fluctuating prospects of private investment in an uncertain world. Nearly all unemployment in a cyclical downturn was the result of the failure of investment demand.

240. Since 1993 the Fund apos s activities have been concentrated on the people apos s essential needs drinking water roads and tracks electricity supply improved housing health education and other public facilities and activities (sanitation, measures to combat sand encroachment, construction of youth centres, etc.).

We also need Africans who love Africa so much that they want to protect their countries their land from environmentally destructive processes. The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

But, in the former communist bloc, the benefits brought by transparency have been undeniable. At the same time, Romania s experience demonstrates that official secrecy remains a threat to the core values of democratic governance, and that only constant vigilance, in both established and young democracies, can prevent its encroachment.

In addition, we would like to reaffirm the importance for the Council to clearly define its authority and to focus on the functions and responsibilities conferred upon it by the Charter, so as to avoid repeated encroachment upon functions that fall within the purview of the General Assembly.

The severing of indigenous peoples from their lands and territories through expropriation, dispossession, encroachment, extinguishment of rights, and other policies, doctrines and laws of States and non recognition of the social, cultural, spiritual and economic significance of land had both short and long term impacts on indigenous communities.

It has often been argued that Russia was reacting to the perceived encroachment on its near abroad by the European Union and NATO. But history suggests a simpler explanation A decade of steadily rising oil prices had emboldened Russia, leaving it ready to seize any opportunity to deploy its military power.

The Ministry wishes to register the protest of the United Arab Emirates and its rejection of that act, which constitutes a de facto change to the island, a violation of its historical and cultural features and an encroachment on the rights and sovereignty of the United Arab Emirates over the island.

Hayek feared that deliberate policies to maintain full employment would lead to increasing state encroachment on the free market and political liberty. It was this fear that led, from the 1980s onwards, to the piecemeal abandonment of the policy system of the mixed economy indeed, to the dismantling of the mixed economy itself.

Even in Turkey, a non Arab Muslim country with strong aspirations to reconcile Islam with democracy, the agreement between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s Islamist government and the urban middle class to limit official encroachment on secular lifestyles is unraveling. Erdoğan now promises to reconstruct Turkey in his own authoritarian and religious image.

But the summit showed that Japan no longer intends to stand on the diplomatic sidelines. On the two foreign policy issues that dominated the agenda, Abe was a forceful participant, advocating a muscular response to Russia s encroachment on Ukraine s sovereignty indeed, Abe visited Kyiv before the summit and supporting efforts to roll back the Islamic State.

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) technologies for increased productivity of rainfed agriculture in Arab countries assessment of forestry resources green belts to combat desertification and desert encroachment in the Arab region range resources in the Arab region land and water resource management, land reclamation and water harvesting techniques natural resource inventories through standardized geo referenced data bases.

Now, China is at it again, including near the convergence point of China, India, and Pakistan the same place last year s PLA encroachment triggered a three week military standoff. This pattern suggests that the central objective of Chinese leaders visits to India is not to advance cooperation on a shared agenda, but to reinforce China s own interests, beginning with its territorial claims.

The EU s twenty first century dream now confronts the nineteenth century Czarist bear, flashing its atavistic claws on the Russia Ukraine border. And, just as ASEAN has been unable and unwilling to stand up to China over its encroachment in the South China Sea, the EU is already discovering the limits of its soft power, consensus driven approach to Russia.

The origins of the Houthi movement date to 1991, when it was created to protect Zaydism, a moderate form of Shi'ism, from the encroachment of Sunni Islamists. After the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, on September 11, 2001, the group's battle took on a geopolitical dimension, as its fighters objected to Yemen's decision to collaborate with the United States and enhance bilateral intelligence cooperation.

Mr. Mohd Radzi Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) said that the report of the Special Committee contained disturbing accounts of the unprecedented level of physical destruction in the occupied Arab territories, as well as the loss of control by the Palestinians of strategic resources and of the contiguity of their lands, owing to the separation wall, road closures and checkpoints and the encroachment of Israeli settlements.