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Virginia creeper | American ivy | woodbine | American woodbine | creeper | false grapes | five leaves | wild woodbine | wild woodvine | woody climber

Boston ivy | Boston-ivy | Japanese ivy | Japanese-ivy

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12. Calls on the Government of Myanmar/Burma to ensure that farmers and communities are protected from land confiscation and forced evictions, in line with international standards; notes concerns about the Constitution, the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law, which allows the government to confiscate land for any project that it claims to be of ‘national interest’ and permits it to use all ’vacant’ lands, some of which are occupied and provide a livelihood for communities; further notes that well-connected business people are pursuing legal action to register such land in their own names;

7. Calls on the Government of Burma/Myanmar to ensure that farmers and communities are protected from land confiscation and forced evictions, in line with international standards; notes concerns about the Constitution, the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law, which allows the government to confiscate land for any project that it claims to be of ‘national interest’ and permits it to use all ‘vacant’ lands, some of which are occupied and provide a livelihood for communities; further notes that well-connected business people are pursuing legal action to register such land in their own names;

Every single hour, tropical virgin forest equal in size to three hundred football pitches is turned into palm plantations.

There is another point related to this. Countries' economies, especially those in transition or in the process of developing, are not simply a cow which is there to be milked.