DS Calls for a new World Restitution Agency – It’s About Time!
In a world where every culture, every legal system, every religion, every set of moral principles views stealing as wrong, a crime and...
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Jan 6, 20221 min read
It’s Time for a Climate Displacement Levy!
Whether we like it or not, the truth is that the money needed to prevent and resolve climate displacement has not been forthcoming and is...
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Oct 21, 20211 min read
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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Sep 30, 20213 min read
Do We Need a New World Restitution Agency? Send Us Your Ideas
To everyone who is a parent and to those who are yet to become or may never become parents, what is one of the first things that parents...
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Jul 27, 20211 min read
Longstanding DS associate, Prof. Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new book – Law, Property and Disasters :
Longstanding DS associate, Prof. Daniel Fitzpatrick of Monash Law School in Melbourne, Australia, has published a new book – Law,...
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Apr 13, 20211 min read
Ninth OHOF House ready for occupants!
We are delighted to announce the completion of the ninth house of the joint DS-YPSA One House One Family at a time project (OHOF) in...
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Oct 24, 20201 min read
Climate Change and Human Rights Law School Course Goes Digital
DS Director Scott Leckie recently completed teaching his popular law school course at Monash Law School in Melbourne on Climate Change...
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Jul 7, 20201 min read
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...
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Jun 1, 20201 min read
Podcast on the Climate Crisis in the Marshall Islands
The most recent episode of the podcast Jointly Venturing – Let’s Talk World Citizenship, hosted by DS Director and Founder in his...
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Dec 4, 20192 min read
This is What SOLVING Climate Displacement Looks Like!
Growing numbers of people are losing their homes and lands every day because of the effects of climate change. Climate displacement is...
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Oct 21, 20194 min read
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...
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Apr 16, 20194 min read
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...
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Apr 16, 20192 min read
Customary Land Dispute Mechanisms in Myanmar – New Report by DS & NRC
This report provides an in-depth understanding of customary land dispute resolution in Kayin State, Eastern Bago Region and Shan State...
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Apr 10, 20191 min read
DS Comments on Post-Earthquake HLP Policy in Nepal
Displacement Solutions was approached and commissioned by DFID to carry out research on the housing, land and property rights issues...
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Mar 20, 20191 min read
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...
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Feb 25, 20191 min read
The People of Myanmar Need National Agreement on Restitution
A new 76-page report prepared by DS Director Scott Leckie with the collaboration of Jose Arraiza of NRC, with the support of the Joint...
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Jan 10, 20191 min read
NEW DS & NRC Report on Resolving HLP Rights Disputes in Myanmar
With support from MyJustice, the European Union and the British Council, DS and NRC have released their latest report designed to...
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Dec 2, 20181 min read
DS wraps up research mission to Nepal to study the response to the tragic 2015 earthquakes
A three-person DS team has just completed a research mission to Nepal to examine the legal and policy responses to the 2015 earthquakes...
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Nov 4, 20181 min read
The Guardian reports on climate displacement in Myanmar
Have a look at Libby Hogan’s article ‘We feel like hermit crabs’: Myanmar’s climate dispossessed, published on 1 November 2018 in The...
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