Scott Leckie (born 1962) is an international human rights and global housing advocate in the field of

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. He established several

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organisations and remedial institutions.

Career

Scott Leckie is the Director o
Displacement Solutions
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-based NGO working to assist people who are displaced from their homes due to conflict or

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. Leckie is also Director o
Oneness World Foundation
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, rather than exclusively citizens of individual nation-states. Leckie founded the

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) was a Geneva-based international non-governmental organisation founded in 1994 by Scott Leckie as a foundation in the Netherlands (Stichting COHRE). Offices At its height in 2008, COHRE maintain ...

(COHRE) and was Executive Director from 1991 to 2007. He has worked with the Centre for Human Settlements of the

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, the Panos Institute, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the

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(SIM). From 1989 to 1999 he acted as Legal Counsel and

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Representative for

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. He was born in

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and holds citizenship in the

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. He resides in Australia.

1998

*Prepared a Plan of Action on behalf of

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for the possible return of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the

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and South Ossetia, including a draft Law on Housing and Property Restitution of the Republic of Georgia.

1999

*Designed the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Housing and Property Directorate, which to date has settled over 29,000 restitution claims in the territory.

2002

*With the support of the OSCE and the

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, he developed a legal reform plan in

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to facilitate the restitution of properties illegally seized during the period of dictatorship and provided legal analysis of the draf
Law on Return and Compensation for Property of Former Owners

Publications

*2003 - Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons was published by Transnational Publishers. *2007 - Housing, Land and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases and Materials was also published by CUP. *2007 - Handbook on the Implementation of Housing, Land and Property Rights for the Internal Displacement Division of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). *2008 - Cambridge University Press (CUP) published his edited volume Housing, Land And Property Rights In Post-Conflict United Nations And Other Peace Operations: A Comparative Survey & Proposals For Reform.

Guest editor

*April 2000 Oxford University’s Forced Migration Review *2000 UNHCR’s Refugee Survey Quarterly (2000)

References

External links

Displacement SolutionsOneness World FoundationCentre on Housing Rights And Evictions (COHRE)
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