The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization has stated that in the process of decolonization there is no alternative to the colonizer's allowance of self-determination, but in practice decolonization may involve either nonviolent revolution or national liberation wars by the native population.

To monitor the implementation of Resolution 1514 in 1961 the General Assembly created the Special Committee referred to popularly as the Special Committee on Decolonization to ensure decolonisation complete compliance with the principle of self-determination in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 ( XV ), 12 Principle of the Annex defining free association with an independent State, integration into an independent State, or independence as the three legitimate options of full self-government compliance with the principle of self-determination.

The party does not consider Gibraltar to have been decolonised by the Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006, and has a policy of continued participation at all United Nations venues where Gibraltar is discussed including the Special Committee on Decolonization until such time as the decolonisation of Gibraltar is recognised by the UN and the achievement of a new international status for Gibraltar as a full self-governing territory under the British Crown.

Moreover, Main basse sur le Cameroun, autopsie d ’ une décolonisation ( Cruel Hand on Cameroon: Autopsy of a Decolonization, 1972 ), by Mongo Beti, is a critical history of contemporary Cameroon that reported the continued dependence — economic, social, cultural — of decolonised African nations and countries upon Metropolitan France, whose dependence was actively continued by the post-independence, national political élites of the given countries.

Papua New Guinea is a member of the United Nations ' Special Committee on Decolonization.

Decolonization is a political process, frequently involving violence.

Decolonization is rarely achieved through a single historical act, but rather progresses through one or more stages of emancipation, each of which can be offered or fought for: these can include the introduction of elected representatives ( advisory or voting ; minority or majority or even exclusive ), degrees of autonomy or self-rule.

He is also responsible for the fact that in August 1985: Aruba ’ s Constitution and its Independence first from the Netherlands Antilles, and then from the Netherlands, as agreed in march 1983, in Aruba ’ s Decolonization and Independence Agreement, is unanimously approved by all political parties in Aruba.

Decolonization in the 1960s triggered large refugee movements in Africa, creating a massive challenge that would transform UNHCR ; unlike the refugee crises in Europe, there were no durable solutions in Africa and many refugees who fled one country only found instability in their new country of asylum.

On June 13, 2005, Kayak was arrested inside the United Nations headquarters in New York City after he tried to switch the United Nations flag with the Puerto Rican one, while the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization discussed the political status of Puerto Rico.

On June 15, 2009, the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization approved a draft resolution calling on the Government of the United States to expedite a process that would allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise fully their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.

John D. Hargreaves explained in his book of Decolonization In Africa that “ Europeans would bring scientific and technological expertise and mature political wisdom .” ethnic people did not acquire any benefits from German technology during German East Africa Company because Germans were exporting most of the products from colonized countries to Germany.

By the time of World War II, almost every nation in Africa had his own pro-autonomy factions, initiating the period of Decolonization.

* 1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.

In 1962 the United Nations set up a Special Committee on Decolonization, often called the Committee of 24, to encourage this process.

* 1946-The United Kingdom inscribed Gibraltar in the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories kept by the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-93.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes Montserrat on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

Since 1986 the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

Decolonization in the world was contrasted by the Soviet Union's successful post-war expansionism.

Since 1972, the U. N. Decolonization Committee has called for Puerto Rico's decolonization and for the U. S. to recognize the island's right to self-determination and independence.

In 2007 the Decolonization Subcommittee called for the United Nations General Assembly to review the political status of Puerto Rico, a power reserved by the 1953 Resolution.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

The Fourth Committee formerly handled Trusteeship and Decolonization matters.

* Decolonization of former European Colonial empires.

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization.

Boudica (; alternative spelling: Boudicca ), also known as Boadicea and known in Welsh as Buddug ( d. AD 60 or 61 ) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.

are used, mainly due to an alternative spelling of Hristos ( Christ ) as Cristos, the latter being preferred by the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches.

Some older astronomy books give an alternative spelling of the name, Camelopardus.

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On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).

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The alternative spelling Xavier is also popular in Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy.

It is recorded as an alternative spelling of Lollard.

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Tamil (, alternative spelling: Thamizh ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka.

The Taliban (), alternative spelling Taleban, (, meaning " students " in Pashto ) is an Islamic fundamentalist militant movement of Pashtun tribesmen.

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Vladimir Igorevich Arnold ( alternative spelling Arnol'd,, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010 ) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

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* Chat, an alternative spelling of the Indian and Pakistani chaat

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The alternative English spelling of Ogallala is considered improper.

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