Inviolability of inherited colonial borders

They also pointed to the failure of current legislation in States in the subregion to take account of customary law and the somewhat imprecise time frames applied in the papers (pre colonial, colonial and post colonial).

The Dutch Period Museum.

3. The time has come to acknowledge the dark side of the colonial period, even though it was not entirely devoid of light.

As to Christophe, his elitist reform was reminiscent of the colonial period.

Of particular historical resonance in our part of the world are the crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas during the colonial period and during the period when slavery was practised.

During the precolonial and subsequent colonial periods, wealthy people used to donate lands, buildings and other resources to set up and run dispensaries and hospitals in their localities.

These archaic sections corresponded to behavior originating in the colonial period, when virginity and the payment of dowries were valued as currency.

Started off when the causes in the wars du jour in the '70s were wars of independence and decolonization.

You see, China under foreign domination actually lowered their income and came down to the Indian level here.

The time for colonization was in the past.

Access of woman to education must be viewed in function of education in colonial Mozambique as well as in light of armed conflicts.

During the colonial period, 1.3 million black slaves were uprooted from their homelands to work in the plantations of the Spanish society of that time.

Like the concept of aboriginal title, extinguishment is a term that came into prominent use during the colonial period.

For more than four decades the issue of decolonization had been on the agenda of the Special Committee and Member States had been called upon to redouble their efforts to end colonialism during the Second International Decade.

In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized.

During the debate on the question, the representative of Fiji said that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples called for an end to colonialism when the peoples of colonized territories exercised their right to self determination.

His complaint is closely linked to events which occurred in British Southern Cameroon in the context of decolonization.

Furthermore, his parents are of Portuguese descent and his father was a district leader who oppressed the people of East Timor during the colonial era.

It was ironic that, during the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, members of the colonial governor's political party would appear before the Decolonization Committee to promote the continuation of colonization as an option to be presented to the Constitutional Assembly.

During the colonial period, education in Greenland was very limited.

The posts in the Decolonization Unit should be approved in accordance with the medium term plan for the period 1998 2001.

And so it s really it's really how suddenly, you know, this was made in 1997, which is the time of Abacha the military dictatorship, the worst part of Nigerian history, this post colonial history.

He suggested that the deadline for submission of the draft proposals on the aforementioned decolonization agenda items should be set for Thursday, 6 October 2005, at 4 p.m.

44. Colonization entailed the destruction and modification of the structures of the colonized peoples.

Subsequently, the first documented census was conducted by the Spaniards during the colonial era in 1548 and indicated a population of 8.3 million in the Viceroyalty of Peru.

And when you have colonization what do you have?

The Chairman reminded delegations that the deadline for the submission of draft resolutions under decolonization items was set for 4 p.m., on Thursday, 6 October.

Recognizing the need for flexible, practical and innovative approaches towards reviewing the options of self determination for the peoples of the Non Self Governing Territories with a view to achieving complete decolonization by 2000,

While we rejected colonialism, we accepted our colonial heritage.

Nevertheless, benevolent colonialism was still colonialism.

2. Colonization

In the meantime, its right as a colonized people must be preserved, especially by the United Nations, which proclaimed the decade 1990 2000 to be the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism.

The charge of colonialism, meanwhile, is simply reflex colonialism no longer exists. The charge that international law is

6. At a time when the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, proclaimed in 1991, was coming to an end, the United Nations was called upon to make a decisive effort to complete the decolonization process started almost 40 years earlier and to implement fully the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination.

There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but ...

Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from June 2004 to March 2005

4.15 Hence it has been established that the State party did not infringe article 26 of the Covenant, nor did it abandon Portuguese citizens located in Angola at the time of decolonization.

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Colony shape

As for the Special Committee on Decolonization, its goal consisted in ensuring self determination for colonies, and there had been cases in which colonies had been de listed as Self Governing Territories after the United Nations had become convinced that they had exercised their right to self determination.

You've got 12 hours to leave the colony.

In any case, as you may remember, the Great Divergence reaches its zenith in the 1970s, some considerable time after decolonization.

Her country believed that, while racism had reached its zenith during the colonial period, the end of colonial domination had brought phenomenon.

Indonesia had from the outset, time and again expressed its readiness to cooperate with the then colonial Power towards the peaceful and orderly process of decolonization of East Timor.