Studios have been closed and their properties confiscated.

Egyptians guarding their property from looters and thugs.

Another 300,000 were injured or suffered property damage.

Returnees find greater obstacles in seeking to reclaim their land or property.

Later, they exchanged some possessions for cattle and joined a nomadic Kazakh auyl (village) in the countryside.

By 508, the Visigoths had lost most of their Gallic holdings save Septimania in the south.

2.1 The authors, a group of Portuguese citizens forming the Association of the Dispossessed of Angola , lost all their property during the decolonization of Angola, which was a Portuguese colony until it acquired independence on 11 November 1975.

Tens of thousands are still missing hundreds of thousands have lost all their possessions and been rendered homeless.

The Egyptians then marched into northern Ethiopia from their coastal possessions around the port of Massawa.

1. Reaffirms that the Palestine refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived therefrom, in conformity with the principles of equity and justice

Subject matter Loss of property in Angola by Portuguese citizens at the time of decolonization by Portugal and non compensation for losses constituting a possible case of discrimination

1. Reaffirms that the Palestine Arab refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived therefrom, in conformity with the principles of justice and equity

The struggling sugar barons sold portions of their properties to the Indian merchants in what became known as the Great Morcellement Movement.

It also affirms the right of the Palestine refugees to their property and to the income from it in accordance with the principles of equity and justice and the resolutions of international legitimacy.

Independence in the Americas (1770 1820) During the five decades following 1770, Britain, France, Spain and Portugal lost many of their possessions in the Americas.

Many counter revolutionary families were forced out of their homes to live in buffalo sheds so that their meager assets could be requisitioned.

When the population is displaced by fighting, their property is systematically looted and they find their homes burnt or destroyed upon their return.

They're most often sold to people, and people then wind up in debt and have to pay back the debt, and sometimes have to sell their property in order to pay back the debt.

Articles 32, 33 Right to transfer in the State of origin their earnings, savings and personal belongings right to be informed on the rights arising from the Convention and dissemination of information.

1.1 The authors are Portuguese citizens who lost their property in Angola at the time of decolonization by Portugal and have received no compensation for the loss.

The past year had witnessed 153 reports of such incidents in which UNICEF staff or their immediate dependants or assets were harmed.

The independent expert was informed that the civilian population continues to suffer extortion, looting and destruction of their property both by FNL and Government Armed Forces.

My husband and I have watched quite a few friends divide their assets and then struggle with being our age and single in an age of sexting and Viagra and eHarmony.

What I found was, I started working with refugees and famine victims small farmers, all, or nearly all who had been dispossessed and displaced.

The overloaded rubber dinghy in which they crossed the Aegean Sea to Lesvos had begun to sink, and in order to keep it afloat for the final few hundreds of metres to shore they were forced to get rid of any excess weight they could by throwing their possessions overboard.

In the world s harshest environment, they trekked hundreds of kilometers, surviving on camel milk and dried meat, with all of their possessions strapped to a camel s back.

Women and men are equal in managing, utilizing and making decisions over their properties, which means they can sell, donate, exchange, or invest their properties in business or hand them down for inheritance.

Persons whose property had been confiscated were, under section 23.2 of the Act, eligible to recover their property, subject to conditions to be spelled out in a separate restitution law.

Only 9 per cent of implemented HPD and HPCC category C decisions have resulted in repossession by rightful owners.

Also included is the release of all detainees who were imprisoned in the aftermath of the riots that took place in Yemen in 2004, and allowing members of the family that ruled prior to the Yemeni revolution to return and to be compensated for the loss of their property.

The authors complain that their properties in Angola were seized, without compensation, during the transition to independence in 1974 to 1975, and that Portugal has not paid compensation for these actions of the Angolan authorities.

Nor did the Nazis exterminate the Jews in order to take their property most Jews were poor, and those who owned anything probably would have given it up gladly in order to save themselves.

4. Notes with alarm numerous reports of the Taliban troops deliberately destroying, burning and looting homes and assets of civilians essential for their survival in the battle zones

3.3 The authors seek reparation for the spoliation of their property in the form of compensation, either directly on the part of Portugal or indirectly on the part of Angola through diplomatic channels.

2.5 Although Portugal compensated its nationals for losses suffered in Portuguese territory in 1975 and 1976, Portuguese citizens who were dispossessed in Angola have not been compensated.

Two old men of 80 and 85 years respectively were guarding their properties day and night against army patrols, touring bulldozers and threats of various sorts.

Finally, investors are adding nearly a trillion dollars worth of net dollar securities to their positions every year, thus increasing the risk of continued dollar accumulation.

She invited the High Commissioner to visit Georgia to examine the situation with regard to refugees and internally displaced persons with a view to ensuring that the people who had been forced to flee their homes would neither lose their right to return nor their property.

Even as these new displacements occur the Government is not responding with sufficient determination to protect the rights of those internally displaced persons who returned to their land for the agricultural season and found their property occupied by nomads.

4.5 In a note verbale dated 21 September 2001, the State party presents its observations on the merits, which it considers relate to the issue of whether there was discrimination between citizens depending on whether their property was located in Portuguese territory or in territory under Portuguese administration.

2.2 On 26 October 1977, Portugal promulgated Act No. 80 77, recognizing the right of Portuguese citizens and foreign nationals whose property on Portuguese metropolitan territory had been expropriated or nationalized during the troubles of 1975 and 1976 to receive compensation.

For me, the nomad was a romantic figure, akin to the American cowboy of the Wild West. In the world s harshest environment, they trekked hundreds of kilometers, surviving on camel milk and dried meat, with all of their possessions strapped to a camel s back.

All persons or groups whose property has been seized or whose assets have been frozen have the right to challenge this through full and fair legal proceedings, which, owing to the gravity of seizing property or freezing assets in democratic societies and the principle of the presumption of innocence, must be compulsory.

Moreover, protective measures are required to be applied, if the person involved in the criminal proceedings or his her close relatives were threatened by physical violence or destruction of the property or if he she was exposed to violence, due to the latter's participation in the criminal proceedings.

On 27 February 1988, Azeris went on a three day rampage in Sumgait, an industrial town 20 miles from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, murdering members of the town's large Armenian minority, looting and destroying their property.