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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...
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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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...
Jan 6, 20221 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20213 min read
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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...
Aug 29, 20212 min read
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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...
Jun 2, 20212 min read
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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...
May 3, 20211 min read
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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,...
Dec 15, 20202 min read
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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...
Dec 4, 20192 min read
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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...
Oct 21, 20194 min read
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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,...
Aug 7, 20192 min read
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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...
Apr 10, 20191 min read
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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...
Feb 25, 20191 min read
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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...
Nov 4, 20181 min read
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OpenGlobalRights covers Myanmar Climate Land Bank report
OpenGlobalRights has published a recent article on the DS Myanmar Climate Land Bank report of May 2018. You can access the article...
Jul 10, 20181 min read
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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...
Jun 13, 20181 min read
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Oct 14, 20170 min read
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Commemorating 10 Years of Action – the 2016 DS Annual Report
Ten Years of Action It is hard to believe that DS has now been active for ten busy and eventful years. This has been quite a ride for our...
Aug 7, 20172 min read
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New DS Photo Essay on Climate Displacement in Lau Lagoon, Solomon Islands
From 2016-2020 Displacement Solutions is implementing its Climate Displacement Land Initiative (CDLI) in five frontline countries...
May 3, 20172 min read
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DS Turns 10!
DS Turns 10! 28 December 2016 DS marks its tenth anniversary after its founding in Geneva on the same day in 2006. DS Director and...
Dec 26, 20162 min read
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