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Festival of Tolerance to promote peace and harmony for Smart Bangladesh

GC46 interactive event: Indigenous Peoples’ climate leadership: A holistic perspective to achieve food security and nutrition

Dhaka, Bangladesh – On the night of May 31, Agrojyoti Bhante was brutally attacked by two machete-wielding men at a monastery in Khagrachari, 270km (168 miles) south of capital Dhaka in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The attackers, later identified as two Bengali construction workers who worked at the monastery, also looted about 60,000 takas ($700) from the monastery and left the 47-year-old Buddhist monk, belonging to one of Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities, for dead. While no accur...

Ecosystem Restoration: Necessary Laws and Policies in Bangladesh The Daily Star along with Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) and Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) organised an online discussion titled “Ecosystem Restoration: Necessary Laws and Policies in Bangladesh” on June 13, 2021. The primary objective of the roundtable was to discuss necessary policies and the implementation of existing policies to preserve and restore our ecosystem. Khushi Kabir, Cha...

International human rights organizations condemn the recent Panay Massacre Format Deadly operations through coordinated police and military actions on Indigenous Peoples under Dutertes regime in the Philippines must stop! We the undersigned organisations across the world condemn the apparently extrajudicial execution of 9 Indigenous leaders, and the illegal arrest of 17 additional leaders and members of Tumanduk nga Mangunguma nga Nagapangapin sa Duta kag Kabuhi (TUMANDUK). The massacre took pl...