Other violations included forced displacement and appropriation of land.

Forced displacement has become a problem of alarming dimensions.

(a) Unlawful killings, rape, extortions, forced displacement, mass abduction and forced recruitment and labour targeted at civilians

Initiatives to tackle the causes of forced displacement and promote reconciliation were therefore to be supported.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

The brutal forced displacement of 1.8 million civilians in the Sudan's Darfur region provides a chilling example.

Over the past decade, forced displacement within borders has become one of the most disturbing features of conflict.

Several million people have died either directly in armed struggle or from forced displacement and the resulting health consequences.

In the new kinds of conflicts prevalent today, civilians are harmed in various ways, including by forced displacement, forced conscription, violence, indiscriminate killing, starvation, disease and loss of livelihood.

23. Also notes that some progress is being made by interested States and the Office of the High Commissioner within the context of the European Asian Programme on Forced Displacement and Migration on issues related to asylum and forced displacement, consistent with the mandate of the Office

20. Also notes that some progress is being made by interested States and the Office of the High Commissioner within the context of the European Asian Programme on Forced Displacement and Migration on issues related to asylum and forced displacement, consistent with the mandate of the Office

Deploring practices of forced displacement and their negative consequences for the enjoyment of fundamental human rights by large groups of populations,

(f) The forced conscription and displacement, enforced or involuntary disappearances and other acts of intimidation and harassment directed against the population

Murder, torture, enforced disappearances, the destruction of villages, rape and forced displacement continue to be committed against the people of Darfur.

But these organizations ultimately exacerbated violence, generated land dispossession and forced displacement, and helped to prolong the conflict for nearly five decades.

New opportunities are arising that could address some of the root causes of forced displacement and offer new hope for durable solutions.

(l) The forced displacement of populations in the Sudan as a result of the armed conflict, in particular in areas surrounding the oilfields

United Nations bodies responsible for follow up and support in cases of forced displacement should carefully scrutinize such situations and identify suitable solutions.

In the third strand, a draft statement of good practice on targeting development assistance for durable solutions to forced displacement is under discussion.

The rapes are continuing, as are the burning, looting and forced displacement that I first reported to the Council more than 20 months ago.

Mr. Marsh (United States of America) welcomed the draft resolution and joined others in deploring practices of forced displacement in violation of international law.

Refugee status was itself a major human tragedy and a violation of Palestinian human rights, entailing, as it did, expulsion, suffering and forced displacement.

The Commission encourages the Government to take special and urgent measures to defend indigenous communities at risk of extinction and to prevent their forced displacement.

The Commission encourages the Government to take special and urgent measures to defend indigenous communities at risk of extinction and to prevent their forced displacement.

Israel's repeated sieges and assaults against civilian areas, including the camps, caused extreme anguish among the refugees and resulted in their forced displacement and further dispossession.

(ii) The occurrence, within the framework of the conflict in southern Sudan, of cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance, the use of children as soldiers and combatants, forced conscription, forced displacement of populations, arbitrary detention, torture and ill treatment of civilians

Additional violations of their rights included the loss of their language and forced displacement, which had left them with only 20 per cent of their ancestral land.

Even as the Commission was conducting its inquiry, and since then, attacks on villages, the killing of civilians, rape, pillaging and forced displacement have continued in Darfur.

Such persons have the right to protection from displacement, protection during displacement and protection after displacement.

Over the last year, a particular focus of UNHCR's efforts in this respect has been protracted situations of statelessness, which are recognized as one cause of forced displacement.

An estimated half a million people were killed during the anti communist hysteria and even more Indonesians suffered torture, enforced disappearances, rape, sexual slavery, and other crimes of sexual violence, slavery, arbitrary arrest, and detention, forced displacement, and forced labor after 1965.

(iii) The occurrence, within the framework of the conflict in southern Sudan, of the use of children as soldiers and combatants, forced conscription, forced displacement, arbitrary detention, torture and ill treatment of civilians as well as the still unresolved cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances

These include the most reprehensible attacks against civilians, such as murder, torture, forced displacement of persons, various forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, detention, looting and destruction of villages and property.

The Committee notes with concern the lack of information from the State party regarding the expropriation of the ancestral territories of certain ethnic groups, and their forced displacement and resettlement (art.

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In particular, the Commission found that Government forces and militias had, throughout Darfur, engaged in indiscriminate attacks against civilians, murder, torture, enforced disappearances, the destruction of villages, rape, pillage and forced displacement.

The situation in Darfur has seen the greatest crisis of protection the civilian population has been subjected to forced displacement on an unprecedented scale, as well as widespread physical and sexual violence.

4. Also urges the Government of Cambodia to strengthen its efforts to tackle the problems related to land, and notes with concern the remaining problems of land grabbing, forced evictions and further displacement

Responses to forced displacement which is frequently caused by violations of these fundamental concerns can, like the cause of larger freedom , only be advanced by broad, deep and sustained global cooperation among States .

In May 2005, the Economic Community of West African States and UNHCR jointly organized a regional experts meeting on sustainable solutions to situations of forced displacement in West Africa to identify best practices.

(v) The forced displacement of populations, in particular in areas surrounding the oilfields, and notes the invitation extended by the Government of the Sudan to the Special Rapporteur to visit the oil producing areas

The total number of internally displaced persons continued to rise in spite of a reduction in new cases of forced displacement, although this trend appeared to be reversing during the second half of 2004.

Whether it was poverty and exclusion, any form of violent conflict, or massive violations of human rights, the international community at large must be willing to address the underlying causes of forced human displacement.

In Burundi, continuous armed clashes between the Transitional Government and the Front national de libération, concentrated in Bujumbura rural areas and the densely populated outskirts of Bujumbura, led to recurrent waves of forced displacement.

It is painful even to attempt to hope and write new year s resolutions. It s painful that the greatest of your Christmas wishes is the forced displacement of those whom you believe have a just cause.