The three-day long traditional 'Boisabi Festival' of the people of different ethnic communities in Khagrachhari began on Friday. The first day of the festival, known as 'Phul Biju', is celebrated by Chakma, Tripura, Marma communities by decorating their houses with flowers and also immersing them in rivers seeking blessings from the
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“Adivasis drowning in abject poverty”
A rosy picture of national ethnic people dancing and singing adorned in traditional ethnic dress in most national events, cultural programmes on state-run television, Pahari (hill people) ethnic food festivals and recruitment in government jobs is not the true story of the life, livelihood and visibility of the Adivasis in
CHT Peace Treaty: Indigenous people’s identity at risk for non-implementation
Non-implementation of Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord since it was signed 25 years ago has severely threatened the culture and identity of the region's indigenous population, and violated their human rights, a UN expert said on Saturday. Marking the anniversary of the signing on 2 December 1997, the Special
Climate finance for locally-led climate solutions needs a new focus
Imagine a world where the people hit hardest by climate crisis have a say in how to stop it. Imagine that youth, Indigenous Peoples, women, and others most affected by global warming have the resources to implement their own climate solutions. Solutions that are highly effective because they meet local
Indigenous forest dwellers fear losing ancestral land
When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest, felt she was living a nightmare. Rema, from Pegmari village in Madhupur, Tangail district, had cultivated the banana plants on half an acre in the Madhupur Forest. But the Forest Department claimed that