Scott Leckie addresses the worsening climate displacement crisis
DS has been active on the climate displacement front for 15 years now, and in the run to COP26 DS Director Scott Leckie has given a range...
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- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
DS & YPSA Launch Phase 3 of One House, One Family at a time in Bangladesh
DS and YPSA are delighted to announce the launch of Phase 3 of our One House, One Family at a time project in Bangladesh where we raise...
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
Two Amazing Guests on Two New Podcasts – Listen Now!
Please have a listen to Episodes 24 and 25 of the podcast Jointly Venturing – Let’s Talk World Citizenship hosted by DS Director and...
- Oct 21, 2019
- 4 min
Land Grabbing as an Internationally Wrongful Act – NEW DS Report on Ending Land Grabbing in My
DS has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar and how these processes constitute internationally...
- Apr 16, 2019
- 4 min
New DS & NRC Report on Obstacles to HLP Rights in Northern Mon State
Decades of military rule have exacerbated the structural inequalities experienced by Mon, Kayin and other ethnicities in their...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 1 min
DS & NRC host two Restitution Workshops in Yangon
From 13-15 March 2019, DS and our partners at NRC led and conducted two training workshops entitled ‘Understanding Restitution’ in...
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
DS Director Interviewed on the 70th Anniversary of the UDHR – Listen here!
DS Director Scott Leckie was interviewed on 10 December 2018 on Australian Radio station 3CR on the 70th anniversary of the Universal...
- Oct 15, 2018
- 1 min
DS Headlines Climate Displacement Seminar at Utrecht University
DS Director Scott Leckie gave the opening address to a seminar on climate displacement at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, jointly...
- Oct 11, 2017
- 1 min
DS signs MOU with United Nations
Displacement Solutions and the United Nations Human Settlements Agency – UN Habitat – today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
- Aug 9, 2017
- 1 min
Interview with Scott Leckie on DS efforts to find solutions to climate displacement
In this video Displacement Solutions’ director, Scott Leckie is interviewed on the activity we’re undertaking around the world to combat...
- Aug 25, 2016
- 1 min
Major UN Boost for the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement Within States
A report just issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council gives extensive and positive coverage to the Peninsula Principles on...
- Mar 24, 2016
- 1 min
DS Annual Report 2015
DS has just released its Annual Report 2015 which gives a brief overview of all of our activities last year, and our plans for the...
- Jul 1, 2015
- 1 min
Hope from the Pope
The recent encyclical by Pope Francis, subtitled “On the care for our common home”, calls on every human being to take responsibility for...
- Jun 16, 2015
- 1 min
La Prensa: Miviot inspecciona sitio a donde trasladarán a gunas
Article in Panama’s La Prensa discussing the climate displacement of the Guna Yala island communities, and referencing the work of DS in...
- May 29, 2015
- 1 min
Gardi Sugdub Relocation Features in Latest Film from The Shore Line Project
The Shore Line Project, directed by Liz Miller, sheds light on the predicament of coastal communities around the world which face...
- May 29, 2015
- 1 min
DS Study on Land Acquisition Law and Practice in Myanmar (May 2015)
DS has just completed a 70-page legal study examining Land Acquisition and Practice in Myanmar. This in-depth survey is based on DS’s...
- May 16, 2015
- 1 min
Where Will We Go? Exhibition: Now in Naarden, Holland
The ‘Where Will We Go?’ exhibition is currently stationed in Naarden, Holland, and was successfully opened on 13 May 2015 by the Dutch...
- May 15, 2015
- 2 min
Article by Scott Leckie and Ezekiel Simperingham Published in the Forced Migration Review
A recent article by Scott Leckie and Ezekiel Simperingham of Displacement Solutions has been published in the latest edition of the...
- May 2, 2015
- 2 min
Planned Relocation Underway for the Community of Gardi Sugdub, Panama
More than 30,000 people from the Gunayala island communities of Panama are facing climate displacement and will need to move from their...
- Apr 29, 2015
- 1 min
Pocket Guide on Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: Hard Copies Now Available!
Hard copies of the Pocket Guide on The Rights of Climate Displaced Persons are now available! Please contact Displacement Solutions...
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