Displacement solutions

Displacement Solutions is a not-for-profit association registered in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation was founded by Scott Leckie on 28 December 2006. Displacement Solutions has offices in Switzerland and Australia. The organisation provides solutions to displacement crises throughout the world; assisting governments, intergovernmental bodies and displaced people to prevent or resolve displacement, with a focus on housing, land and property (HLP) rights. It also carries out country and thematic projects aimed at improving the HLP restitution and other human rights prospects of refugees and IDPs.
The organisation’s primary goal is to help displaced people and refugees to exercise their right to return and have restored to them their original homes, lands and properties, through a reliance on international standards such as the UN’s 2005 Pinhiero Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Displaced Persons. They work with people who have been displaced not only by conflict, forced eviction or other human rights abuses, but also natural disaster, climate change or other circumstances beyond their control.
Advisory board
* Theo van Boven (Maastricht, Netherlands) - Fmr. Director of the UN Centre on Human Rights and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
* Reed Brody - Legal Counsel and Spokesperson, Human Rights Watch
* Andrew Clapham - Director of the Geneva Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
* Anne Gallagher - Technical Director, Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project and Head of Operations, Equity International
* Walter Kälin - Representative to the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
* Irene Khan - Fmr. Secretary-General, Amnesty International
* Dan Lewis - Chief, Post-Conflict and Safety Section, UN-Habitat
* Dennis McNamara - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Fmr. Head of International Protection (UNHCR) and Fmr. UN Special Advisor on Internal Displacement to the Emergency Relief Coordinator
* Paal Nesse - Norwegian Refugee Council
* Roger Normand - Asia-Pacific Director, International Commission of Jurists
* Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro - UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Violence Against Children and Fmr. UN Special Rapporteur on Housing and Property Restitution
* Farouk Tebbal - Fmr. Shelter Branch Chief (UN Habitat Programme) and Fmr. National Minister of Housing for the Government of Algeria.
Publications
The Climate Change and Displacement Reader (2010)
Housing, Land and Property Rights: A Textbook (2010)
(with Eziekiel Simperingham, 2009)
Climate Change Displaced Persons and Housing, Land and Property Rights: Preliminary Strategies For Rights-Based Planning and Programming to Resolve Climate-Induced Displacement (2009)
UN Peace Operations and Housing, Land and Property Rights: Proposals for Reform (ed, 2009)
Displacement Solutions Activity Report 2007/2008 (2009)

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