More than 500 people from communities facing land evictions participated in a protest during World Habitat Day in Cambodia.

Image In 1492 the indigenous peoples were expelled from their lands.

With no access to their lands and their lives made miserable by the Israeli military presence, Palestinians had already started to leave their homes, as could be seen in Qalqiliya, now a ghost town.

Cambodian farmers have also been raising objections to a mini Chinese take over of their lands.

Since the mid 1990s the central government of Botswana has been trying to move San out of their lands.

Serbs governed only by Serbs on their own territory is still Serbia s goal.

2.2 million refugees were displaced by the end of the war (of all three nationalities).

Many families must even sell their land to pay for treatment in a proper hospital.

Their problems included displacement from their land, poor socio economic development and lack of access to decision making.

Really no reason for any other leaders of the world to continue ruling their own little domains.

But corruption in the country ranked 107th out of 175 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index only partially explains the deep resentment felt by ordinary Djiboutians towards the international military forces in their country.

Palestinians on the Israeli side of the wall would be cut off from their lands, homes, clinics and schools.

As these conflicts drag on with no end in sight, Djiboutians fear that violence might flourish on their soil as they have in neighbouring Yemen.

Millions of people have been forced to abandon their lands as farming and nomadic lifestyles have become unsustainable.

Those landmines have caused the death of scores of Lebanese citizens and injured hundreds more. The situation prevents people from returning to their farmlands and planting crops.

Supporters of free markets will argue that if local landowners wish to sell their land, that is their choice to make.

As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or catastrophe their story of dispossession, occupation, and statelessness.

They may even transfer the lease to other farm households if their members find better jobs in the cities.

In July 2014, residents of Tarlabasi won a law suit to prevent the expropriation of their land and stop the redevelopment in its tracks.

The wall also undermined the national identity of the Palestinians, as well as their legitimate demands for the return of their lands, which were being divided up into isolated patches.

The wall impeded freedom of movement in the Palestinian territory, swallowed up large areas of the territory and separated East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

The security wall was having adverse effects in terms of the access of some Palestinians to their land and water sources, customary amenities and places of worship.

Thus, the potential for pharmaceutical development will not provide strong encouragement to private landowners or companies to protect their land.

Resolution of the refugee problem was closely linked to respect for their right to return to their territory, cessation of Israel's policy of aggression and revival of the peace process.

By depriving peasants of their land and making them de facto state employees, collective farming allowed Moscow to control people as well as their produce.

After the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, cheap grain from the United States flooded Mexico, driving peasant farmers off of their land.

To prevent the demise of Bosnia and Herzegovina villages, the main motive of refugees and displaced persons to return to their properties is gone.

10.1 All refugees and displaced persons have the right to return voluntarily to their former homes, lands or places of habitual residence, in safety and dignity.

10.2 States shall allow refugees and displaced persons who wish to return voluntarily to their former homes, lands or places of habitual residence to do so.

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

The gradual loss of control by Palestinians over their territory and national identity was further illustrated by recent developments concerning Jewish settlements.

We also thank our brothers in Kenya and in all neighbouring countries for sheltering thousands of Somali refugees in their territory throughout these years of turmoil and conflict.

In many areas, rural landowners, especially farmers, have received offers to lease their land from these wind power developers.

They demand the Brazilian government to suspend the construction of hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon region as well as complain about the government lack of willingness to negotiate over their land rights.

The lives of Palestinians on their own land were becoming more and more difficult, following confiscation of land, depletion of water resources, razing of crops, uprooting of trees, destruction of infrastructure and demolition of houses.

This decline follows new registrations in camps and the departure of a number of internally displaced persons who are returning to cultivate land in their villages of origin during the rainy season.

It can plan for the long term benefits of the country and in the process, evict millions of people that's just a small technical issue.

In developing nations where these effects are most severe, small farmers could no longer afford basic inputs and were forced to sell their land.

The Parties shall, in utilizing waters of the Sava River Basin in their territories, cooperate and take all appropriate measures to prevent causing significant harm to other Party(ies).

The expectation that he would allow the Arabs, particularly the Syrians and the Palestinians, to recover their land without resorting to arms has been proved, by his own admission, to be unrealistic.

The Byzantines, however, managed to stop further Islamic expansion into their lands during the 8th century and, beginning in the 9th century, reclaimed parts of the conquered lands.

10.3 Refugees and displaced persons shall not be forced, or otherwise coerced, either directly or indirectly, to return to their former homes, lands or places of habitual residence.

They have been dispossessed of their lands and resources, languages, culture and forms of government, and are often denied access to basic social services (including education, health and food, water, sanitation and housing).

Second, the Wall had resulted in the seizure of Palestinian land, particularly in the regions of Tulkarem and Qalqiliya, where Israel had confiscated the best agricultural land and water resources, with no compensation whatsoever.

He noted that as a result of massive environmental degradation millions of people had been forced to abandon their lands, because farming and nomadic lifestyles had become unsustainable.