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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- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
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...
- Aug 29, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
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,...
- 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...
- Apr 16, 2019
- 2 min
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...
- Apr 10, 2019
- 1 min
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...
- Feb 25, 2019
- 1 min
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...
- Jan 10, 2019
- 1 min
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...
- Dec 2, 2018
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 13, 2018
- 1 min
Australia’s Torres Strait Islands and Climate Displacement
A new DS report released today explores the effects of climate change and rising sea levels on one of Australia most vulnerable...
- Feb 8, 2018
- 1 min
NEW! – HLP Rights in Peace Agreements – Guidance for Peace Negotiators in Myanmar
This publication explores how housing, land and property rights issues have been addressed in peace agreements concluded over the past...
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
Major New DS/NRC Report on Myanmar’s Next Challenge: Making Restitution a Reality and a Part o
Based on the extensive global restitution experiences of both organisations, the report takes the view that redressing housing, land and...
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