ট্যাগ Chittagong Hill Tracts
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PEACEKEEPING FORCES: Don’t allow HR violators: UNPFII to UN
Written on UN press statement; posted in bdnews24.com The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) has urged the United Nations to prevent military units violating human rights from participating international peacekeeping activities. At the closing of its 10th session in New York on Friday, the forum also requested the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which…
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PEACEKEEPING FORCES: UN urged to screen army’s HR records
Prepared upon UN Press Statement May 27, 2011 Published in bdnews24.com A UN Special Rapporteur has suggested that the United Nations closely monitor the human rights records of the army before letting countries take part in the peacekeeping operations. Lars-Anders Baer, a former member of the UNPFII, during the 12th and 13th meeting on CHT…
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‘Define terms minorities, indigenous’
Published on bdnews24.com on May 27, 2011 A former advisor to the caretaker government has asked the government to clarify who are indigenous and who are not. Sultana Kamal, also a member of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission, told bdnews24.com the government cannot establish something forcibly. She was responding on Friday to the comment of…
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‘Probe army’s HR violation in CHT’
Wed, May 25th, 2011 11:18 pm BdST Published on bdnews24.com The systematic violation of human rights by the army in the hilly areas should be investigated, an international indigenous rights activist has said. “I visited burnt down villages, including Mahalchharhi in 2003, and also other villages recently, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. These are villages…
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