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2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT
Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated
Protect Mro community from violent land grabbers
The government must punish perpetrators and ensure indigenous land rights
‘Indigenous In the Edge’ outlines lives of 17 ethnic groups in Bangladesh
Members of each community have reviewed the information that attempts to offer insight into the histories, homes, the clans and tribes that make up each community, the food habits and religious and cultural practices, and the languages, written and oral, they employ.
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples / Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.
Indigenous women's traditional knowledge and practices can help us to survive with nature instead of abusing it. In Bangladesh, their inherent value are yet to be fully understood and duly recognised by the scientific community, development practitioners and policymakers alike.
Recipes from across Bangladesh
What better way to spend your weekends than to try your hand at recipes for delectable dishes from our indigenous communities in Bangladesh.
Books exploring the lives of indigenous peoples
The book is a complete treatise on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Editorial / Their homes burnt, where will they go?
A report published in this daily on March 27 has once again brought to the fore how the vulnerability of indigenous communities is often used as an instrument of exploitation against them.
Keep peace in the hills: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for maintaining a peaceful atmosphere in the hill tracts of the country.
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.
Leaving home in fear of torture
Fearing torture and harassment allegedly by forest officials, around 187 Bangladeshi indigenous men, women and children of five villages under Kalenga Reserve Forest in Habiganj tried to cross into India on Saturday early morning.
Huge Amazon reserve fires contained
Brazilian officials have managed to contain several forest fires that have destroyed half of an indigenous reserve in the Amazon region.
2 charged with Garo woman’s gang-rape
Rapid Action Battalion presses charges against two persons for gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman in Dhaka on May 21.
Adivasis call for rights (video)
In face of hardships and struggle in everyday life, the population belonging to ethnic minority demands constitutional recognition, equal rights and dignity.
Man kills son, 3 others in Joypurhat
A man allegedly kills his six-year-old son and three members of his in-law's family in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat.
‘Rapists’ of Garo woman on 10-day remand
A Dhaka court places on 10-day remand two people arrested on charge of gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman on May 21.
City of dreams turns nightmare
Condemning the gang-rape of the Garo woman on the night of April 21, eminent citizens of the country say the culture of lack of justice is what drives these incidents.
Indigenous people deprived more in 2014: report
The frequency of violation of civil and political rights to people of the ethnic minority in Bangladesh intensified further during last year, a published report says
