Sentences with phrase «government land grabs»

Some commented on events involving collective action, such as volatile demonstrations over government land grabs in Fujian province.

Attention peasants displaced by government land grabs!

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Without a body to call its «government» — the Lebanon war reduced the Palestine Liberation Organization from a leadership entity to a merely symbolic force — the Palestinians are deprived of any real hope that the land grab by Israel will be halted.

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

The governor said the United States government treated Native Americans badly, including the forced march of the Cherokee nation, known as the Trail of Tears, and land grabs that left tribes on less desirable reservation lands.

The hostiles of Cooper's title, of course, refer to various tribes as well as the land - grabbing, government - sanctioned «settlers.»

Finally, for the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms.

Like Tiny Houses, the house is as much a political statement as it is an architectural one, providing a response to the soaring price of Chinese real estate and government «land grabs» that have displaced many Chinese citizens.

«The land might be owned by the state or government and used by the communities and has been like that for centuries,» said Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia who studies land and water grabbing.

This practice is part of a worldwide land - grabbing trend prevalent in countries, like Cambodia, where corrupt governments aid international corporations.

Chief among their concerns is the potential for a «land grab» whereby governments, carbon traders, and speculators secure rights of the ecosystem services provided by forests without the consent of the people who live within the forests.

As announced in the Policy paper the ICC will now expand its focus on prosecuting with national governments such serious crimes as «illegal exploitation of natural resources, arms trafficking, human trafficking, terrorism, financial crimes, land grabbing or the destruction of the environment.»

Surprisingly, that is what the law of this country has allowed, although in recent years the government has clamped down on opportunistic land - grabs.

It will also serve as a method to prevent anyone within the government from corrupting the process for nepotism or to execute an illegal land grab.

With ever - growing cloud - based storage and sharing of data by business, academic institutions, non-government services and government agencies, Kakutai warned that sharing of Indigenous data can be seen as «a new land grab».

Many Elders believe there is a tumultuous political climate and that they are seeing an inevitable fast - tracked land grab by this Government and by coteries of already wealthy predatory carpetbaggers.