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, 2022
- 1 min
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...
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
After Us The Deluge by Kadir van Lohuizen
Longtime DS collaborator and photojournalist extraordinaire Kadir van Lohuizen of NOOR Images has just released his latest beautiful...
- Apr 13, 2021
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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...
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
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,...
- Oct 24, 2020
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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...
- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
We Are All Climate Displaced Persons
DS Director Scott Leckie led an online workshop hosted by the Centre for Local Prosperity entitled ‘We are all Climate Displaced Persons’...
- 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...
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
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...
- Feb 20, 2020
- 1 min
Read this book!!!
Congratulations to long-time DS associate Dr. Khaled Hassine on his new book Handling Climate Displacement! Recently published by...
- Oct 9, 2019
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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...
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
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,...
- 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...
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