Archive for January, 2013

Human rights violation against indigenous peoples alarming in 2012, says Kapaeeng Foundation report

Human rights violations against indigenous peoples, including reported cases of violence, land grabbing and dispossession, intensified alarmingly in 2012, says a Kapaeeng Foundation report. In 2012, 16 people including 7 women were reported to be killed and 23 were either arrested or detained throughout the year whereas around 150 were tortured or intimidated, and around […]

BIWN & HWF organise human chain demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma in Dhaka

On 5 January 2012 at 11:00 am Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network (BIWN) and Hill Women’s Federation (HWF) organised human chain demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma in front of National Museum at Shahbag in Dhaka. BIWN and HWF rejected CID’s final report on the case of abduction of Kalpana Chakma and demanded independent, impartial and credible […]