Displacement Solutions

24/10/2025

DS Director, Scott Leckie has published a book on the life of his grandfather.

He wanted to share this with you - If you're interested, you can find the book at this link: https://books2read.com/u/4AeRXk

From Scott:
"This isn't the first time America has been through a very dark and gloomy political era. One of those was the time of Hoover, McCarthy and the Red Scare. As it turns out, much to chagrin my grandfather Arthur Bernard Leckie played a central role in creating a darker America. To come to terms with it I wrote Shrewd Little Sleuth. What I discovered in writing this biography will require more than a little familial karmic cleansing..."

If you'd like to follow Scott, please check see:
https://www.instagram.com/scott.leckie.author
https://www.instagram.com/oneness.world/
https://www.scottleckie.com.au

16/05/2025

We're really excited to share news with you about our Director Scott Leckie's new podcast 'Democracy Tomorrow'. The channel already boasts a number of videos about world citizenship and – as Scott and his guests discuss these topics in detail – delves into some of the topics we deal with at DS.

We think it's a great watch and very meaningful conversation and we hope that you do too!

Any way, check it out and if you like it, please share it with your friends and networks – Scott would really love to get his message out to as many people as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/

30/05/2024

This is the second video from the series on our 'One House, One Family' project in Bangladesh - please watch and donate if you can.

https://www.displacementsolutions.org/one-house-one-family

Visit https://www.displacementsolutions.org/ for more videos

10/05/2024

Together with our Partners Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) we have built 14 houses for highly vulnerable climate displaced families in coastal areas of Bangladesh. We are now commencing OHOF Phase 4 where we plan to build an additional 16 homes.

Visit https://www.displacementsolutions.org/ for more videos

31/01/2024

Displacement Solutions director Scott Leckie, with his newly released book, out now via amazon.com

This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights. HLP rights have undergone a major transformation in recent decades, but much remains to be done to bring their promise to the billions of people who have yet to access them.

This work presents several innovative ways by which the entire field of HLP rights can be strengthened in support of those to whom they are promised by human rights laws. It outlines the author’s suggestions for creating a new World Restitution Agency, expanding our understanding of the term ‘internationally wrongful act’ to HLP crimes, the links between mine action and HLP rights in post-conflict societies and the need to include HLP issues in peace agreements.

The book concludes with several chapters that outline suggestions for better addressing climate displacement, including the need for national climate land banks, the role of the courts and how to redistribute global wealth towards rehousing the millions set to be displaced from their homes and lands due to the effects of climate change.

The volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policymakers working in the areas of international human rights law, housing, land and property issues, humanitarian issues and climate change.

Link to Amazon:
https://a.co/d/1pIxivK

Housing, Land and Property Rights: Residential Justice, Conflict Zones and Climate Change (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

28/11/2023

Despite the worsening climate displacement crisis, as of late-2023 only 19 cases out of more than 2,500 climate cases that have been considered by the world's courts deal in any way with climate displacement.

This needs to change.

The hundreds of millions of people threatened by climate displacement need legal and judicial protection and the courts should help!

This new DS report outlines the nature of each of the 19 cases and articulates the immense judicial ground that still needs to be covered to fully protect the rights of climate displaced persons and communities.

You can read and download the report here:

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 displacement have thus far been brought to the attention of courtrooms around the world. This new DS report ou...

08/11/2023

The third video in our series of regional dialogues on climate displacement and the Peninsula Principles is now available to watch via YouTube. This meeting focuses on innovative approaches in the Pacific Islands.

https://youtu.be/Q-OozLDkZyI

Please visit displacementsolutions.org for more information on Displacement Solutions and the Peninsula Principles.

Download the Meeting Summary Paper here:
https://www.displacementsolutions.org/_files/ugd/9ec010_f611d2d9549a4a24aea914477d36c7a8.pdf

02/11/2023

The fourth video in our series of regional dialogues on climate displacement and the Peninsula Principles is now available to watch. This meeting focuses on innovative approaches in Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIMlNEaUJVo

Please visit displacementsolutions.org for more information on Displacement Solutions and the Peninsula Principles.

22/09/2023

Climate Displacement Webinar - Asia.

The Second meeting in our series of webinars around the Peninsula Principles is online now. link below. 👇

https://www.displacementsolutions.org/films-1?wix-vod-video-id=7ce829f9024d45abbeb3c2839dd9ba5d&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-lmoejanq

06/09/2023

Throughout the world, rural areas in many countries are facing the loss of populations, investment and economic vitality. As a result, countless villages have been abandoned, homes by the million have fallen into disrepair and local economies have withered. Rural towns and villages could stand a better chance of survival by actively transforming into Climate Displacement Havens. By actively welcoming people who have been displaced because of climate change, dying villages win, national governments win and most importantly climate displaced populations win.

27/08/2023

Displacement Solutions calls on governments everywhere to immediately establish national climate displacement ministries to
better tackle the severe and worsening global displacement crisis.

Displacement Solutions calls on governments everywhere to immediately establish national climate displacement ministries tobetter tackle the severe and worse...

17/08/2023

Governments in a range of locales in the United States have already started buying back people's homes in areas that are facing ever-worsening flooding and other problems generated by the effects of climate change.

Texas and California have already starting these processes and many others will necessarily follow. Without such programmes, people will end of homeless, landless and without assets. Housing buy back programmes can work.

https://www.displacementsolutions.org