Indigenous community

2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

Amid cold with no food, shelter

At least eight families of the Mro community, whose houses were allegedly set ablaze and vandalised by people of a rubber plantation in a village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila, are now living under the open sky, in the chilling winter cold.

Books exploring the lives of indigenous peoples

The book is a complete treatise on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

37 families lose homes to arson

At least 37 landless families, mostly from the indigenous Pahan community, have been living in the open in Naogaon's Dhamurhat upazila since early Monday, when their shacks were burnt down while they were asleep.

Mro life on the Sangu bank

The lady of the house carried the first batch of drinking water from the nearby dying Sangu River with her two-month-old daughter in tow.

Editorial / The vulnerability of ethnic minorities

It is a story that repeats over and over: An indigenous community living for generations in an area suddenly being told that they will be evicted because some influential has decided to use it for lucrative purposes.

Brazil indigenous group 'attacked'

Members of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous community in western Brazil say they have come under attack from local farmers.

January 4, 2023
January 4, 2023

2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

January 4, 2023
January 4, 2023

Amid cold with no food, shelter

At least eight families of the Mro community, whose houses were allegedly set ablaze and vandalised by people of a rubber plantation in a village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila, are now living under the open sky, in the chilling winter cold.

August 9, 2021
August 9, 2021

Books exploring the lives of indigenous peoples

The book is a complete treatise on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

March 27, 2019
March 27, 2019

37 families lose homes to arson

At least 37 landless families, mostly from the indigenous Pahan community, have been living in the open in Naogaon's Dhamurhat upazila since early Monday, when their shacks were burnt down while they were asleep.

May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018

Mro life on the Sangu bank

The lady of the house carried the first batch of drinking water from the nearby dying Sangu River with her two-month-old daughter in tow.

December 26, 2017
December 26, 2017

The vulnerability of ethnic minorities

It is a story that repeats over and over: An indigenous community living for generations in an area suddenly being told that they will be evicted because some influential has decided to use it for lucrative purposes.

September 6, 2015
September 6, 2015

Brazil indigenous group 'attacked'

Members of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous community in western Brazil say they have come under attack from local farmers.

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