Press Release: Seminar on CHT at the House of Lords, on 04 July 2011
Lord Eric Avebury, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, with the co-operation of Jumma Peoples Network UK (JPNUK) organised a seminar on Chittagong Hill Tracts, which was held at the House of Lords on 4th of July 2011.
Lord Avebury chaired [...]

(Extracted copy in relation to the recommendations on Bangladesh / CHT. For full report please click  10th Session Report 2011
102. The Permanent Forum takes note of the study by Lars-Anders Baer on the status of the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997 (E/C.19/2011/6). The Permanent Forum also takes note of the concerns [...]

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To download: Wasfia-Agenda 8 FINAL.WN
Thank you, Madame Chairperson and warm and respectful greetings to all.
I feel privileged and honored that I, as a Bengali, can add voice to the plight of the indigenous peoples of my land. However, a part of me also feels ashamed that I come here, as a Bengali, whose fellow people [...]

To download: U K Zan-Statement on CHT Accord
Thank you, Madame Chair, for giving me the floor. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election as the chairperson of the 10th session of UNPFII and to all other members for their nominations to the Forum.
Madame Chair,
We are growing increasingly skeptical [...]

To download: Sami-Council-Statement_v1 on CHT Accord
I thank you Madam Chair for giving me the opportunity to address the Permanent Forum.The Indigenous Saami Council congratulates the Special Rapporteur on giving an overview of the current state of the implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord.
The Saami Council believes that the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord [...]

To download: RDR-CHT-Accrd-8-Final-Vrsn
Madame Chairperson, Indigenous, state & non-governmental delegations, ladies & gentlemen
CONGRATULATIONS TO RAPPORTEUR
I offer my congratulations to Mr. Lars Anders Baer for his report on the Implementation Status of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997 (E/C.19/2011/6). It is well-researched and factual, and contains reasonable and implementable recommendations. I also commend the observer [...]

To download: MKC-PF11angal282
Thank you, Madame Chair, distinguished Govemment delegates, honorable indigenous sisters and brothers,
I, on behalf of PCJSS, political party of indigenous Jumma peoples which signed chittagong Hill Tracts (cHT) Accord in 1997, would like to take this opportunity to thank Special Rapporteur on the Study on the status of implementation ofthe cHT Accord of [...]

To download: Lina-Intervention on peace accord (Final)
Thank you, Madame Chair, distinguished Government delegates, honorable indigenous sisters and brothers,
I, on behalf of Kapaeeng Foundation, a national human rights organisation of indigenous peoples and Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum, national platform of indigenous peoples, congratulate Mr. Lars-Anders Baer, the Special Rapporteur, for his authentic and excellent report on [...]

To download: joint statement ai+iwgia, 10th Session UNPFII-1
Thank you Madam Chair for allowing us this opportunity to address the Permanent Forum.
We would like to start by complimenting the Special Rapporteur on his study on the status of implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997. The study provides a useful overview of the extent [...]

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Good morning. As this is the first time I take the floor, I congratulate the Chair and new Members of the Permanent Forum for their appointment.
The North America Indigenous Peoples Caucus at the 10th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues expresses our firm support for the following summarized statement [...]

To download: GIPC UNPFII10 Statement CHT
The Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the status of implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997 and warmly thanks Mr. Lars Anders Baer for this important work.
We also express our solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, thank [...]

To download:   Denmark-Statement on peace accord 
Madame Chair, distinguished members of the Permanent Forum, representatives of Indigenous Peoples and member states,
Let me begin with congratulating the Special Repporteur on his report on the status of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord 1997. We find the report to be thorough and we welcome the recommendations and encourage the relevant [...]

To download: ASIA Caucus re CHTs Report
Asia IP Caucus Statement. Delivered by Rukka Sombolinggi
Madame Chair, Asia Indigenous Peoples Caucus would like to call for international solidarity to our brothers and sisters in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and to express our serious concerns for the appalling situation in that region.
Since the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord [...]

17 May 2010

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THE High Court Division on April 13 declared the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regional Council Act of 1998 unconstitutional and illegal. On the government’s petition the judgement was later stayed for six weeks by the Appellate Division. Now the government has to seek leave to appeal, the granting of which [...]

16 April 2010

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed for six weeks the High Court verdict that declared illegal and unconstitutional the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council Act 1998.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Muzammel Hossain also asked the government to file a regular leave-to-appeal petition with the SC against the HC verdict within [...]

13 April 2010

The High Court on Tuesday declared Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council Act, 1998 illegal but ruled that the peace accord was legal.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury passed the order upon two writ petitions filed by Badiuzzaman, a Bangalee settler in CHT, and Tajul Islam, a [...]

Release Date:  21 March 2010
During a courtesy visit with Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 7-8 P.M on 21 March 2010 at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Mr. Naoto Sakaguchi and Ms. Mieko Tanaka, Japanese Members of Parliament (House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan), presented the Prime Minister’s staff with the following appeal calling [...]