The new status will give the Palestinians more tools to challenge Israel in international legal forums for its occupation activities in the West Bank, including settlement-building, and it helped bolster the Palestinian Authority, weakened after eight days of battle between its rival Hamas and Israel.
Greek politicians have called on Germany to pay compensation for its occupation during World War II.
But if the RCD crumbles, Rwanda will doubtless find an alternative cover for its occupation of eastern Congo.
China changed its mind after vituperative outbursts online by nationalists, still angry with Japan for its occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s.
She criticized Syria for its occupation of Lebanon that ended in 2005 and said that government helicopters had struck near the St. James monastery three times, causing damage.
North Korea demands that Japan pay billions of dollars in reparations for its occupation of the Korean peninsula for much of the first half of the 20th century.
For more than three decades, Israel has been the target of regular condemnation by the United Nations for its occupation of lands seized in war.
But it has a particular poignancy — and circularity — since Italy agreed in August to pay Libya, a former colony, $5 billion in reparations to compensate for its occupation.
Its text fulminated against the United States for its "occupation" of the holy land of Arabia, its "aggression" against Iraq, and its support of "the petty state of the Jews".
In 1904, the United States government, eager to drum up public support for its occupation of the Philippines, brought thirteen hundred Filipinos to the St . Louis Exposition where they were displayed in a living diorama.
