EMRIP11: Statement of Kapaeeng Foundation representative on Agenda Item 4: Study and advice on free, prior and informed consent
The 11th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 9-13 July 2018 Statement by: Shohel Chandra Hajang, Kapaeeng Foundation, Bangladesh, shohelchandra@gmail.com Agenda Item 4: Study and advice on free, prior and informed consent Thank you Mr. Chair. My name is Shohel Chandra Hajang and I belong to Hajong community from plain land
Kapaeeng Foundation’s Half-yearly Human Rights Report
Kapaeeng Foundation’s Half-yearly Human Rights Report (January-June 2018) 209 indigenous persons & 125 families in 70 incidents of HR violation victimized in last 6 months In January-June 2018, at least 70 human rights violations incident on indigenous peoples both in plain and CHT have been observed. A total of 209 indigenous persons including 12 children
Two Tripura girls killed after rape, key accused confesses to the killing
Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum (BIPF) and Kapaeeng Foundation jojntly organise Human Chain at the headquarters of Sitakunda Upazila (sub-district) of Chittagong district. Hundreds of Tripura villagers from Sitakunda and Mirasarai Upazilas attended the protest. Presided over by General Secretary of Sitakunda unit of BIPF Mr. Rabindra Tripura, the protest was adressed by local Commission of
5 hundred indigenous families migrate to Arakan due to insecurity in Bangladesh and alluring policy of Myanmar
It came to knowledge that more than five hundred indigenous families from remote rural localities of Alikadam, Thanchi, Naikhyongchari, Lama upazilas (sub-districts) of Bandarban Hill District had already migrated to Arakan (Rakhine State) of Myanmar during the last 4 to 5 years under sheer pressure of lacking security to life and property, deprivation of potential
UPDATE: One year of attacks on Santals in Gobindaganj, Evacuees still remain un-rehabilitated
Kapaeeng Report: Even though a year has passed after a massive incident of violence against Santal and Bengali farmers took place at Sahebganj-Bagda Farm area in Gobindaganj upazila under Gaibandha district on 6 November 2016, the Santals who were evicted from the land of Sahebganj-Bagda sugarcane farm were yet to be rehabilitated and compensated. Rather,
100 families live in fear of eviction in Lama, a village head arrested
Around 100 families of five indigenous villages in Lama upazila under Bandarban district are now living in fear of eviction from their ancestral homes as land grabbers in the name of setting up rubber plantation there have been threatening them with consequences. The families of five villages are 30 families of Ruposhi Puraton Marma Para,
19 Years Kalpana Chakma Abduction: Women, Student, Rights Defenders and Indigenous Organizations Staged Mass Demonstration and Rally in Dhaka Demanding Justice for Kalpana
On 12 June 2015 at 3.30 pm, women, students, youths, human rights defenders and indigenous peoples organizations organized a demonstration and public gathering at Central Shahid Minar in Dhaka demanding for publication of final probe report of Kalpana Chakma and exemplary punishment of the perpetrators. Following the demonstration, a procession was also brought out in
