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Feb 25, 20223 min read
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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Aug 29, 20212 min read
Model Constitutional Article on the Right to Adequate Housing
Less than half of the world’s national Constitutions enshrine the legal right to adequate housing, despite the widespread recognition of...
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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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Jun 2, 20212 min read
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...
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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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Dec 15, 20202 min read
New DS Report (!) – Courtrooms and Climate Change
New DS Report (!) – Courtrooms and Climate Change: The Current State of Play – Global attention to the question of climate change,...
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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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Mar 14, 20201 min read
Second Phase of One House, One Family at a time project – almost complete!
DS is happy to announce that the second phase of our One House, One Family at a time project (OHOF) in Bangladesh, implemented with our...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read
Read this book!!!
Congratulations to long-time DS associate Dr. Khaled Hassine on his new book Handling Climate Displacement! Recently published by...
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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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Oct 9, 20192 min read
DS Director Scott Leckie to again teach his Climate Change and Displacement Course in 2020 at Monash
Climate Change and Displacement (LAW5454) – Will be Offered 2-6 March 2020 at Monash Law School Human rights and access to justice, will...
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Aug 7, 20192 min read
Climate Land Bank Idea Gets Major Boost in New ADB Report
A new report on Promoting Affordable Housing in Yangon, Myanmar published by the Asian Development Bank has, among other recommendations,...
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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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