Kapaeeng Foundation

On 24 February 2015, Jatiya Adivasi Parishad and Kapaeeng Foundation jointly organized a press conference protesting ongoing violence, evictions, murder andrape, and demanded to ensure security of indigenous peoples of northern region of Bangladesh at Reporters Unity in Dhaka. Rabindranath Soren, President of Jatiya Adivasi Parishad, presented a report on present situation of indigenous peoples […]

On 31st January 2015, Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network (BIWN) organised a press conference to share the situation of violence against indigenous women in Bangladesh reported in 2014 at roundtable hall of Dhaka Reporters Unity.

On 18 December 2014, a national seminar titled “Progression of Universal Periodic Review (UPR)Recommendations to Bangladesh: Indigenous Peoples’ Perspective”was organized by Kapaeeng Foundation with support from Action Aid Bangladesh at CIRDAP International Conference Center in Dhaka. Over one hundred and fifty participants, from both indigenous and mainstream population with different working backgrounds, participated in the […]

On 27 September 2014, Kapaeeng Foundation (KF), Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum (BIPF) and Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) organized a seminar titled “Land Rights and Protection of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh” at CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka. The seminar highlighted the issues of land and land related human rights violations against Indigenous […]

On 16-17 September 2014, a training on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) monitoring process and implementation of UPR recommendations was jointly organized by Kapaeeng Foundation and Action Aid at Sabarang Restaurant in Rangamati city. About 35 trainees took part in the training from the three hill districts.

Second National Indigenous Women Conference was held at CBCB Centre in Dhaka on September 6-7, 2014.The two-day long national conference was jointly organised by Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network (BIWN) and Kapaeeng Foundation in co-operation with Oxfam and European Union with the titled ‘Strengthen Unity and Solidarity for Establishing of the Rights of Indigenous Women’.

On 11 August 2014, Kapaeeng Foundation organized a discussion meeting on “Second International Decade and Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh” at National Museum auditorium in Dhaka. The meeting was organized to celebrate the occasion of International Indigenous Peoples Day 2014 with the support of European Union and Oxfam.