DS Director Scott Leckie was invited by German Green Party MP Ute Koczy and the Heinrich Boell Stiftung to present a talk on climate displacement and land solutions for those displaced. The talk formed part of a panel discussion held on 29 June in Berlin, and focused on DS efforts in Bangladesh, Kiribati, Papua New [...]
We are pleased to inform that Dr. Khaled Hassine‘s study on the Housing and Property Directorate/Claims Commission (HPD/CC) in Kosovo was honored with an Academia award for its outstanding contribution to the research on HLP rights and mass claims procedures in post-conflict situations. His legal study, for which Prof. Dr. Veijo Heiskanen, Lalive Avocats Genève, [...]
Climate Refugees in Bangladesh – Answering the Basics: The Where, How, Who and How Many (as at May 2010)
Extreme climate events – be it the result of environmental destruction by people, or naturally occurring changes in climate – are forcing people to flee their traditional place of residence with enormous sufferings in points of transit [...]
In late March 2010, the Bhutanese Refugee Restitution Organisation (BRRO) was established to seek restitution and compensation for the properties of more than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees who have not been allowed to return to Bhutan and reclaim their lands. Although most of the 20,000 Bhutanese refugee families still possess legal evidence of their ownership of [...]
Scott Leckie and Chris Huggins recently completed a new Textbook on HLP Rights and Conflict designed for university level courses on HLP rights issues. Once published, ordering details will be available here.
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