Sentences with phrase «land disputes in»

It is envisaged that if fully adopted, Bitland will ease the backlog of such land disputes in the continent.

According to a report from Global Witness, between 2002 and 2013, there have been 908 known deaths of activists engaged in land disputes in 35 countries.

Her 2017 slate includes playing an 1800s painter who gets caught up in a Lakota land dispute in Woman Walks Ahead; she's the lead in Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game; she plays a member of the Polish resistance to Hitler in The Zookeeper's Wife.

In a post by Reuters on February 16, 2018, the story broke of a recent land dispute in Utawala, a rural province, 26 km east of Nairobi, Kenya.

Not exact matches

«We have consistently called on China, as well as other claimants, to refrain from further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarization of disputed features, and to commit to managing and resolving disputes peacefully with other claimants,» a Pentagon official told CNBC when asked about China's recent military activity in the area.

The disputed clumps of land are small and barren, not to mention overrun with feral goats — but they sit in waters rich with tuna and oil.

Loopstra Nixon is a full - service Canadian business and public law firm dedicated to serving clients involved in business and finance, litigation and dispute resolution, municipal, land use planning and development, and commercial real estate.

The Committee urged Canada to do more to ensure the timely and fair resolution of land disputes and to respect the international standard of free, prior and informed consent in decisions affecting Indigenous rights.

From machetes to maps: How a red line eased conflict in Bolivias Amazon After years of dispute on the edge of a national park, CI and government partners helped competing land users find common ground through a map they drew together.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

In the sustained if intermittent violent disputes with her near neighbors, Ammon and Moab (Lot), and Edom (Esau), Israel continues to recognize her close kinship with these semitic groups but insists in the stories that her claim to Canaan was validated long before she came out of Egypt and into the land under JoshuIn the sustained if intermittent violent disputes with her near neighbors, Ammon and Moab (Lot), and Edom (Esau), Israel continues to recognize her close kinship with these semitic groups but insists in the stories that her claim to Canaan was validated long before she came out of Egypt and into the land under Joshuin the stories that her claim to Canaan was validated long before she came out of Egypt and into the land under Joshua.

The Pact (c. 717 A.D.) was supposedly made (there is some dispute among historians on the exact date and circumstance of its beginnings) between the Umayyad caliph Umar II and «people of the book» (Christians and Jews) in the lands conquered by Muslim jihad.

The Prophets, even when stressing God's sovereignty over all of humanity and his eventual establishment of universal justice, emphasize the role of the land as the place in which international disputes will be settled and the divine word sent forth to all of humanity (Isaiah 2; Micah 4).

Entering into the disputes over all the necessary distinctions and qualifications lands us right back in the sixteenth century, which, one is inclined to believe, is not where the Holy Spirit intends to lead the Church at the end of the twentieth century.

Even in the Holy Land, where Christians have been caught in the crossfire of the Israeli - Palestinian dispute, their numbers have dwindled from 20 percent of the population (in 1945) to a mere 2 percent today.

Fact is Utah is a in a huge dispute with the Federal Government over Federal Land 65 % of the state and Education.

Not in some air - conditioned, cushioned sanctuary, but in a peasant girl's arms on a cold night in a cruel and disputed land.

The dispute began after the park board said it planned to issue up to $ 16 million in bonds for land acquisition and construction.

A developer, the village of Lemont and the Lemont Park District are locked in a dispute even though all of them want the same thing: to turn a parcel of land into a recreational area.

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news...

Roselle is asking that binding arbitration be used to settle a dispute with the Medinah Park District that stems from Roselle's demand to annex Park District land in exchange for water and sewer services.

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment Tuesday night after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news about the contract.

McLaughlin, Orland Park's mayor, has said that this was the key issue in the land dispute and that he wanted the area to be developed within Orland Park's residential planning guidelines, which call for 2.5 to 4 units per acre.

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news about the contract.

VERNON HILLS — A dispute that has erupted between the village and the Park District over the fate of 41 acres of district - owned land is expected to be discussed in executive session.

Construction of a skate park area and sewer upgrades, among other improvements, at Gordon Park in La Grange will move forward after the village's Plan Commission gave a green light to the project after weeks of discussion between the park district and village officials over a land ownership dispute.

I want to also plead with Hon. Members to remain neutral in all disputes, especially chieftaincy and land related disputes», he highlighted.

Responding after receiving the report, Governor Ambode commended members of the Committee which included Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana; Partner of SimmonsCooper, Mrs Victoria Alonge, among others, for the painstaking efforts put into the report, saying that their passion in ensuring that the State Government recovers its lands, buildings as well as disputed quarters were very much appreciated.

He said: «It is our hope that this initiative will put an end to the long - standing dispute between Federal and Lagos State Governments over the Federal Government disused lands and buildings and disputed quarters in various parts of the State which are no longer in use for the purposes for which they were originally released to the Federal Government

The two, Kwaku Ninja and Taller, who had been attached to the Striking Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service at the time, were reportedly assigned to invite the parties involved in a protracted land dispute at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

For example, in East Timor the UN was uneasy about settling land disputes, critical though their resolution was to economic recovery.

The other would settle a 100 year - old land ownership dispute in a part of Hamilton County called Township 40.

A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja, has sentenced the leader of a six - man gang, Mohammed Sani Audu to death by hanging for stabbing one Hussein Isa to death over land dispute.

Also Monday, the Legislature approved a deal to settle a dispute over $ 4.5 million in funding related to New York Islanders» owner Charles Wang's failed Lighthouse Project to redevelop the Nassau Coliseum and its surrounding land.

It was learnt that the attack was not unconnected with the recent rivalry over the disputed land boundary between Aladja community in Udu Council and Ogbe - Ijoh community in Warri South West Local Government areas of the state.

According to him, since the case is now in court he will wait until it is called, adding he followed due process and will not get himself entangled in a dispute between the plaintiff and her family over the sold land.

Land, especially those who are in dispute, should be taxed, say at a rate of.01 % for non disputed land, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othLand, especially those who are in dispute, should be taxed, say at a rate of.01 % for non disputed land, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othland, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othland that really should have belong to others.

«The attachment of the Ghanaian people to the rule of law made it possible for us, in the New Patriotic Party, to entrust our fate to the highest court in the land in the aftermath of the disputed elections of 2012.

He also raised alarm over the numerous unresolved chieftaincy and land disputes recorded in the region.

The ownership of the land according to the traders is being disputed in court.

Celebrated Broadcast Journalist, Kwami Sefa Kayi aka Chairman General, has chided Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul over the manner in which the latter publicly attacked ex-President John Mahama over an alleged disputed land he [Mahama] is said to be occupying.

«It also clarified that on the advice of the governor that all shades of views on how to resolve the recurring crisis between Share and Tsaragi, including, if need be, the application of the concept of «give and take», it is painful that such advice is seen by some party in the dispute as «threatening land owners,» when in fact the governor expressed the same view when he had peace talks with the people of Share after the session with the people of Tsaragi.»

It seems Graff had represented a local property owner in a long - running land dispute with the Mohonk Preserve.

A yet - to - be-identified man has been arrested in Benue State for beheading his neighbour over land dispute.

The land guard menace is rife especially in the Greater Accra Region, where those involved are solely interested in safeguarding their paymasters» interest in disputed lands.

Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has confirmed the death of three persons in a land dispute involving Onweonweya and Mkpumekweoku communities in Izzi Local Government Area of the state.

At the time of his arrest, the police believed that he had been contracted to kill one of the chiefs in the Miotso / Prampram area over a land dispute.

«The proliferation of illicit arms in the country, the existence of numerous land and chieftaincy disputes, the prevalence of terrorist activities in some neighboring countries of our regions all serve as triggers for violence and therefore pose real threats to the 2016 general elections,» he outlined.

In March the Uttar Pradesh state court ordered ASI to research the claim that a temple predated the mosque in hopes of resolving the land dispute (Science, 28 March, p. 1958In March the Uttar Pradesh state court ordered ASI to research the claim that a temple predated the mosque in hopes of resolving the land dispute (Science, 28 March, p. 1958in hopes of resolving the land dispute (Science, 28 March, p. 1958).