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

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

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.

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.

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are public prosecuted cases, and it should be decided by the public security organ whether or not the case should be withdrawn, rather than the reporter.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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the countries that currently do well on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, and others citizens can use the law to protect themselves and their property from illicit encroachment, and to resolve their disputes in an impartial setting. For those at the bottom Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic the rule of law is a fiction that must be made real.

Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states sovereignty. After all, the European Union has avoided becoming a focus of heated contestation precisely because it never got much of a share of what Europeans produced (its budget, at just over 1 of the EU s GDP, has barely changed in relative terms for the past 40 years).

But it is India which maintains open borders with Nepal, and received millions of Nepali refugees during the civil war that probably has the most at stake, as renewed conflict would destabilize India's hill districts, while leaving its Himalayan borders vulnerable to Chinese encroachment. In this context, India must make a strong diplomatic push to help resolve the conflict, even at the risk of fueling resentment among Nepalese, who are wary of foreign interference.

The draft constitution would enhance the policymaking powers of the Union, with a bit more majority voting in the Council of Ministers, and a stronger role for the European Parliament. But, despite Tony Blair's one time declaration that he would take Britain into the heart of Europe, he remains viscerally opposed to the prospect of further integration, and he will resist any new encroachment on British sovereignty in his red line areas of tax, foreign policy, and EU budget finance.