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property seizures.
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Ms. Alexandra Mareschi
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Alexandra Mareschi, Secretary-General - November 2005
UNRESOLVED PROPERTY CLAIMS
Alexandra Mareschi, Secretary-General - February 2004
EUROPEAN PEOPLE'S PARTY DRAFT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING COMMUNISM
Wexler Urges Bush to Discuss Holocaust Property Restitution Issue with Polish President Kaczynski
06.04.2007, Senator Clinton and Colleagues Ask Poland to Implement Fair and Equitable Restitution Laws for Property Confiscated During Holocaus
Helsinki Commission Members Urge Movement on Czech-American Property Restitution Urge Czech Government to Right Injustices and End Discrimination
American section:
Institute for Justice, Doomsday? No Way, Economic Trends and Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform
Legalized Land Grab
Roger Pilon, The Constitutional Protection of Property Rights: America and Europe
24.06.2006, WorldNetDaily, This land was your land, President Bush's executive order: 'Protecting the Property Rights of the American People'
24.06.2005, Washington Post, Justices Affirm Property Seizures 5-4 Ruling Backs Forced Sales for Private Development
By Charles Lane
06.01.2005, Sarah Max, CNN/Money, House not for sale, Can the government force you to sell your house in the name of new development?
Joseph L. Sax, Why America Has A Property Rights Movement
Bulgarian section:
Aspects of land consolidation after the Bulgarian land reform. Dr. Diana Kopeva and Nivelin Noev
Bulgaria: Premier's Restitution Claims Raise Legal Problems, Public Outcry, by Julia Geshakova, Prague, 1 October 2003
The Bulgarian Restitution, the Constitution and the Human Rights
Republic of Bulgaria, National Assembly: Restitution of Nationalised Real Property Act, Promulgated State Gazette No 15/21.02.1992
Cambodian section:
10.12.2007,Guy De Launey, BBC News, Phnom Penh, Cambodia protest over land grabs
09.08.2007, Heng Reaksmey, VOA News, Cambodian Officials Echo UN View on Land Grabs
24.07.2007, Terradayli, Asian Land Grabs Highlight Class Friction And Bureaucratic Failures
Chinese section:
The government of Tibet in Exile, Invasion and illegal annexation of Tibet: 1949-1951
05.10.2004, Edward Cody, Washington Post, China's Land Grabs Raise Specter of Popular Unrest
Constructing Chinese Property Rights: East and West Peter C. Perdue In Constituting Modernity: Private Property in the East and the West, edited by Huri Islamoglu. London, Thomson Publishing, 2004.
Agricultural Collectivization — China
May 1996, Eva Herzer and Losang Rabgey, International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, HOUSING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN OCCUPIED TIBET
Croatian section:
"Vecernji list", December 29, 2005
Agreements on Property Restitution
U.S. Ambassador Ralph Frank
FMR 21 : published September 2004, Post-conflict property restitution in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: legal rationale and practical implementation by Rhodri Williams
Cuban section:
Juan Clark, The Process Of The Bay Of Pigs: Its Development And Consequences
Rights and remedies concerning Cuban residential property, by Stephen J Kingerlin
Cyprus section:
Embassy issues a warning
Czech section:
Volker G Heinz, The Czech And Slovak Law of Restitution
05.2006 Freilaw Analysis of the different methods of privatization and restitution in Czechoslovakia, by Marcus Wagner
Constitutional Court decision rekindles restitution battle for Opocno Castle, 14-01-2005, by Brian Kenety
Restituion of Property in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia, Vojtech Cepl
Restituion and Retrodiction: Talking Back to the Past in Post-Communist East-Central Europe, by Alexander M Karn
German section:
German Restitution Law
Leon Mangasarian, PhD
GERMANY - PROPERTY / COURT REJECTS GERMAN CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION OF COMMUNIST-SEIZED LAND
Compiled by Leon Mangasarian, PhD
SEIZURE OF EASTERN GERMAN PROPERTY 1945-49 AND 1990
Dr. Joachim Ragnitz, Institute for Economic Research Halle
GERMAN UNIFICATION: RESTITUTION OF NATIONALIZED PROPERTIES
Mr. Erimar von der Osten - 01.02.2004
SOVIET 'PROPERTY RIGHTS' IN GERMANY / The Wall Street Journal [PDF-format]
Rückerstattung Ost, Der Umgang der DDR mit dem "arisierten" und enteigneten Eigentum der Juden und die Gestaltung der Rückerstattung im wiedervereinigten Deutschland, Jan Phillip Spannuth, 2001
Mr. Erimar von der Osten - 02.01.1996
THIS LAND IS MY LAND / The Wall Street Journal Europe [PDF-format]
Restitution or Compensation for Expropriated Property?
Guatemaltecan section:
Cecilia Bailliet, Property Restitution in Guatemala: A Transnational Dilemma
Hungarian section:
July 2006 Jewish Currents, Daniel Kadden, Controversies over Organizational Accountability
Property Rights and Transitional Justice: Restitution in Hungary and East Germany. 13.05.2005 Jessica Tucker-Mohl
The University of Liverpool, Nigel Swain, Collectivisation in Hungary: Background Notes
The University of Liverpool, Nigel Swain, The Legislative Framework for Agricultural Transition in Hungary
Italian section:
Alexandra Mareschi, Secretary-General - 15.01.2003
ITALIAN PROPERTY CLAIMS IN CROATIA AND SLOVENIA. FAIT ACCOMPLI?!
White paper on the question of Italian refugees from Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia: Antonietta
Vascon, 2001
Carlo Focarelli, Researcher, Italian National Research Council, Rome: On the Restitution to Italy of Cultural Property Removed to Germany during the Second World War under the Terms of the 1947 Treaty of Peace
Mexican section:
16.01.2006, Banderas News, L. Ernesto Uzcanga - CCC Homeowner's Attorney, Developer Land Grab Puts Mexico’s Legal System on Trial
Olympia:
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and Geneva International Academic Network (RUIG/GIAN):The Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years
Polish section:
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and Dan Currell, The Problems of Property Restitution in Poland (1939–2001)
A landmark case before the European court of human rights could open the door for Holocaust survivors to reclaim property stolen by the Nazis, writes Gillian Sandford, Gillian Sandford, February 11, 2005, Guardian Unlimited
Ministry of the Treasury, General problems of restitution
UPI, Intl. Intelligence, Poles pressed to compensate
For Poland, property restitution has become international dilemma, By Carolyn Slutsky, June 7, 2005
Lawsuit filed in Polish case could set precedent for restitution By Lauren Elkin,
February 15, 2005
Reprivatization in Poland: Political Boondoggle or Cottage Industry?
Romanian section:
Ing. Claudius Mott, Dr. Ing. Ovidiu Lupas
24.09.2006 ASOCIATIA PENTRU PROPRIETATEA PRIVATA APP
Answers on the law of return With the state overseeing the return of properties to their previous owners, how can buyers be sure they do not lose out to a restitution order, Victor N. Constantinescu, Associate, Salans
Delays and Legal Obstacles Continue to Hinder the Restoration of Church and Community Properties to Romania’s Hungarian Minority, 1st April, 2004 by Webm.
May 03, 2005, Major Changes in Property Restitution Law, Robert Comanescu
July 11, 2005, Romania government okays property restitution law, (Reuters)
March 27, 2005, Romanian government plans to speed up property restitution to Jews and other communities, By Alison Mutler, The Associated Press
Restitution: A Romanian Smecherie, The Romanian Digest, No 3 March 2001
Wolf Theiss, Bucharest: Changes enacted to real estate laws
Russian section:
01.08.2007, Douglas Birch, Washington Post, Russian Arctic Team Reaches North Pole
16.06.2006, Jake Rudnitsky, The Exile, Moscow Land Grab!
Art and confiscation in the Russian Federation. Is Your Work Your Own? Governmental Takings of Intellectual Property, Victor Nemchinov, Summer 1998
Serbia-Kosovo section:
Leif Eidenstedt, Sweden/Kosovo, Legal Aspects on the Creation of a Modern Cadastre in Kosovo
Kosovo's war on property rights, by M. Bozinovich
12.03.2007, Drasko Djenovic, Serbia: Very slow official implementation of Restitution Law
Slovenian section:
Vlado Bevc: The South Slav Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3-4 - Autumn-Winter 2001
PROPERTY RESTITUTION IN SLOVENIA - TEN YEARS OF PROCRASTINATION
Slovak section:
Slovak Financial Law News 2005: Act No. 161/2005 Coll. on Restitution of Real Estate Ownership to Churches and Parishes and on Transfer of Ownership to Some Real Estates.
South African section:
Land Redistribution in the Republic of South Africa, 9 January 2004
Missing: Land claimants, Yolandi Groenewald, 06 May 2005
Spanish section:
Jose Ortega, Abusive Application of the Law of the coasts
Destruction at all co[a]sts 2006, Greenpeace report abouthe Spanish coast situation
Industrial Collectivisation during the Spanish Revolution, by Deirdre Hogan
Antonia Macías, Equipo Nizkor, The question of impunity in Spain and crimes under Franco.
What is the Valencia land grab law?
13.06.2005, Peter Upton in Valencia, Daily Mail, Payouts for land-grab victims
04.11.2005, Parliamentary Assembly, Doc. 10737, Need for international condemnation of the Franco regime
Parliamentary Assembly, Resolution 1481 (2006)1, Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes
Transsylvania section:
Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania
Turkish section:
Greek Minority of Istanbul
14.09.2007,TESEV Foreign Policy Program, Discussion of the Cyprus' Property Issue
AUGUST 2007, COMING TO TERMS WITH FORCED MIGRATION: POST-DISPLACEMENT RESTITUTION OF CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS IN TURKEY
October 2006, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), Turkey: A Minority Policy of Systematic Negation
11.12.2004, Maria Burnett, Maria Pulzetti, and Sean Young, The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Yale Law School, Turkey’s Compliance With Its Obligations To The Ecumenical Patriarchate And Orthodox Christian Minority
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