About LESS THAN 1% OF ALL CLIMATE CHANGE COURT CASES DEAL IN ANY WAY WITH CLIMATE DISPLACEMENT Despite the worsening climate displacement crisis, as of late-2023 only 19 cases relating to climate...
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Land lies at the core of solving climate displacement; the world as we know it is not prepared Melbourne, Australia, 3 July 2023 — Between five and twenty million acres of land is estimated to be...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Although calculations of the numbers of those affected still vary widely, the projected number of people who will have to move from their homes and neighbourhoods because of the...
DS has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar and how these processes constitute internationally wrongful acts. The report includes a 21-step legal roadmap to...
On 18 August 2019, the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement Within States will celebrate their sixth anniversary. The ravages of climate change and climate displacement continue to worsen,...
Giving Myanmar's displaced their land back The Norwegian Refugee Council and Displacement Solutions have produced the report "Addressing Myanmar's Unsettled Restitution Gap" to advocate and help find...
Displacement Solutions was approached and commissioned by DFID to carry out research on the housing, land and property rights issues arising from the reconstruction process, with an emphasis on the...
Learning from the Traditional Ways to Solve Land Disputes in Myanmar In Myanmar, we're learning more about how village leaders solve land disputes in the traditional way to help inform policy makers...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This manual outlines proposals for the insertion of housing, land and property restitution rights simultaneously within the context of the ongoing peace process and within broader...
A three-person DS team has just completed a research mission to Nepal to examine the legal and policy responses to the 2015 earthquakes that struck the country, causing thousands of deaths and...
Over the past decade, Displacement Solutions has undertaken extensive research aimed at shedding light on the numerous housing, land and property (HLP) rights issues facing the people of Myanmar...
NEW DS & Ecodev Report Urges Government of Myanmar to Establish a Myanmar National Climate Land Bank A new report released today by Displacement Solutions and Yangon-based Ecodev urges the government...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Any successful outcome to the peace process in Myanmar will invariably need to address the wide range of housing, land and property (HLP) rights issues that are central components...
Displacement Solutions and the United Nations Human Settlements Agency – UN Habitat – today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining a framework for collaboration between the two...
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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 (intentionally) small and flexible organisation, and one...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The question of housing, land and property (HLP) restitution has received increased attention over the past several years throughout Myanmar as the country continues to consolidate...
On 11 March 2017, a group of 54 families moved in the newly built town of Gramalote, Colombia some seven years after the decimation of the town as a consequence of the La Niña phenomena. They are...
INTRODUCTION Restitution means the process of returning to one’s home after displacement and achieving the recovery of one’s land. The process of housing, land and property restitution is truly...
The Principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons articulated herein are designed to assist all relevant actors, national and international, in addressing the...
DS carried out its latest mission to Myanmar with a focus this time on the question of housing, land and property restitution rights and how best to ensure these rights for everyone with an HLP loss...
