Land distribution and land reform

the abuse of dominant positions in the territories of the parties as a whole or in a substantial part thereof.

23. What little territory remained was diminished further by forcible or coerced removal, relocation and allotment.

C. Income distribution, minorities and indigenous peoples

Status of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) land acquisition and distribution

The Ordinance defines land distribution, land zoning, land use planning, etc. within the boundaries of settlements.

Measures accompanying land grants should be strengthened so as to facilitate the settlement of those allotted land, as well as the development of the land.

In the above context, Botswana's National Settlement Policy does not give power to any particular ethnic group to allocate land.

68. A total of 3.2 million hectares were distributed by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) from July 1987 to December 1994. The accomplishment for the period 1993 1994 accounted for 1,047,000 hectares or 33 per cent of the total land distribution performance since the programme was instituted in 1987.

57. Programmes of this sort divide commonly held indigenous land and allot land to individuals or families.

Any territory, or part or group thereof, within the geographic scope of the Commission's work, may, on presentation of its application to the Commission by the member responsible for the international relations of such territory, part or group of territories, be eligible for admission by the Commission as an associate member of the Commission.

(c) Their control over a part of the territory

The purpose of the said condition is merely to prevent double allocation to persons who come from the same family, as to ensure the government's efficient allocation of land resources.

Details of financial resources allocated to the Indigenous Employment Programme

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They also study the impact of land distribution and reform.

In allocating land, the Land Board may issue a certificate of customary land grant or a common law lease.

Conscious of the different viewpoints of the political parties on the future status of the Territory,

(b) Control over a part of the territory

For example, areas of assignment are not indicated in the report.

An annual land tax payable on all land held by non residents of the Territory, or on land held by residents in excess of his or her reasonable needs , is aimed at ensuring that sufficient land is available for reallocation through the Land Court, upon application.

Data on the allocation of hectares, by gender, in the period 1988 1992 show that of the 65, 883,000 hectares of land distributed in Panama, 19.7 per cent went to women and 80.3 per cent to men.

53. The members deplored the continued occupation of part of the territory of the State party.

With regard to the right to land allotment and rent, Vietnam's laws state that every citizen having the need, no matter man or woman, is entitled to land allotment and rent from the State.

There is only one China in the world. Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory.

Restitution of territories was therefore of crucial importance.

(c) Human rights activists and indigenous leaders

Local executive bodies of State authority have considerable power in allocating land plots and in refusing to do so. The leaders of kolkhozes and dekhkan farms and foremen have a great deal of influence on the formulation of the principles of land use. In most cases, they are men.

Often the Governments are extremely weak, control only a part of the territory or are based on the dominance of one ethnic or religious group.

40. There are contributory and non contributory old age pension schemes.

92. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of land, taking into account the needs of the indigenous population, including those persons returning to the territory after the end of the armed conflict.

Control is understood to mean domination of a part of the territory, but what part of the territory should be controlled is not specified.

Turkey attaches great importance to the national unity and territorial integrity of Afghanistan.

According to another witness, electricity supply in OPT had also suffered from military incursions, confiscation of land for distribution to settlers or use by military bases and, more recently, from the construction of the wall.

The proposal contravened the principle of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, since its purpose was to split the territory of the Chinese State.

Lastly, another source of concern is the land delimitation and distribution process, which does not seem to have fully respected the land rights of the indigenous populations.

Customary land shall consist of reserves, land allocated to groupements de droit particulier local (groups covered by special local law provisions) (GPDL) and land allocated by ADRAF in response to claims made on the basis of ties to the land.

Airspace located above Syrian territory shall constitute part of Syrian territory.

This study covered more than half of the country.

Conscious of the different viewpoints of the political parties of the Territory on the future status of the Territory,

(c) In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words evacuation of a third of the Territory s population were replaced by the words evacuation of three quarters of the Territory s population

Her delegation considered that the right to self determination could not entail territorial separation for an ethnic group if that group was not in a majority in the territory concerned and if the other groups living there objected to the separation.

This is linked to traditions and to the division of land in the smaller units, which means that the head of the family , who is always identified as the man or the husband, continues to be favoured.

The question of income distribution is closely bound up with the ethnic discrimination suffered by the indigenous peoples.

4. In the field of electric power generation, distribution and supply, as well as in communications and health services.