Facing continued encroachment, they sold that land in 1768.

1. The new international humanitarian order should oblige States to recognize human rights in their constitutions in order to ensure constitutional protection of human rights from any encroachment thereon.

Its borders are not impervious to encroachment by universal ills.

The reason was an encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine .

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

There can be no encroachment upon the independence of the judiciary or interference in matters of justice.

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

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.

The suppression of transparency is a direct encroachment on the legal foundation of the country where you live.

The Chinese Government and people strongly condemn and firmly oppose such a gross encroachment on China's internal affairs.

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

Palestinians are indeed being provoked, but by Israeli actions beginning with the perpetual encroachment on their rights that occupation entails.

Encroachment In 1799, Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central Italy.

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

Deforestation as result of illegal logging and land encroachment for agricultural activities is one of the main threats to the park.

Henry of Winchester was keen to reverse what he perceived as encroachment by the Norman kings on the rights of the church.

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

It has often been argued that Russia was reacting to the perceived encroachment on its near abroad by the European Union and NATO.

Poland immediately associated the idea with the pre war Danzig (Gdansk) Corridor and interpreted it as an ex territorial encroachment on Polish sovereignty.

(v) Significant flows of refugees or displaced persons resulting from a pattern of racial discrimination or encroachment on the lands of minority communities.

The black headed spider monkey is considered to be critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to an estimated population loss of more than 80 over 45 years, from hunting and human encroachment on its range of habitation.

(ii) The attempt by the Special Rapporteur to find some connection between the situation of human rights in Iraq and the issue of the maintenance of peace and security in the region is an encroachment on the powers of the Security Council.

Encroachment on their lands and their displacement from lands should not be resorted to in the name of development projects or perceived security considerations.

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

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

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.

Niger, which has had to deal with the galloping and frightening encroachment of the desert, is following with close interest the work of this committee.

Such an approach has in no way deterred, but indeed encouraged, the Serbs in their continued encroachment on territory, calculated duplicity and bypassing of agreements.

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.

In a five year period in the 1990s, over 100 local community members and activists were killed protesting shrimp farm encroachment and mangrove loss in Bangladesh.

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.

The Government of the Federated States of Micronesia attaches great importance to the issue of fundamental human rights, and will continue to participate in the work of this body towards a world community in which all peoples live without threat of encroachment upon these fundamental rights.

Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.

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.

In this context, we are further concerned over certain aspects of the restructuring of the Secretariat of the United Nations that strengthen the tendency to such encroachment.

The Masai of East Africa can say that their pastoral tradition has been destroyed in that way because of the massive encroachment on their lands and territories.

However, abandoned land, undergrazing and lack of capital to improve farm infrastructure also resulted in shrub encroachment on flower rich grasslands and a consequent loss in biodiversity.

When confronted with the river's encroachment, the temple was relocated in 1615 to Kim Ngu (Golden Fish) islet of Ho Tay (West Lake) where it is now situated.

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.

Economic sanctions on Russia may eventually hurt, and the Kremlin may desist from further encroachment but the Ukrainian crisis is largely impervious, in the short term, to outside involvement.

Austria would work with the Committee to defend the basic rules that had been agreed and enshrined in the Convention, especially from encroachment under the auspices of combating terrorism.

Human vs Human

The members of the villages in the area of the Apalachicola River were more easily persuaded, however, as they suffered more encroachment from European Americans they went west in 1834.

Human, All Too Human .