Filed on:April 30, 2010
FOCUS OF REPORT
This report compares the laws of Bangladesh concerning its indigenous (or “tribal”) peoples with provisions of the
ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 (Convention No. 107), and where relevant, with the
provisions of the related ILO Recommendation No. 104, the ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples,
1989 (Convention No. 169) and the ILO [...]
Filed on:April 19, 2010
16 April 2010
Courtesy: Daily Star: Naeem Mohaiemen
ACCORDING to media reports, February-March saw the worst violence against Jumma (Pahari) people in the CHT region since the 1997 Peace Accord. However, to put it in context outside a newspaper myopic timeline, the arson, killing, and rapes in Mahalchari (2006) were probably comparable in scale (10 villages attacked [...]
Filed on:April 8, 2010
07 April 2010
The members of Bangladesh Army on 5 April searched five Jumma houses, as the family members of Ms Jharna Dewan, who was chopped to death by settlers on March 29 over a dispute over a piece of land, held obsequies for her at Talukderpara village in Kaokhali under Rangamati district.
The army personnel from [...]
Filed on:April 7, 2010
April 2010
Courtesy: Daily Star (Shahadad Parvez)
Ziauddin Choudhury (was Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong, 1978-81. He now works for the World Bank in Washington DC): provides a personal account of the politics behind the CHT settlement plan.
A treaty, in the minds of our people, is an eternal word.
Events often make it seem expedient to depart from the [...]
