UNPO: Conference Calls Upon Government to Respect Indigenous Rights

The ethnic minority leaders and academics at a discussion on Tuesday [26 August 2008] called upon the government to be respectful to the ethnic minority people's customary rights to land and forest resources which provide them with livelihood supports.

'They have both the spiritual and material relations with the forests, but we are not giving any recognition to them,' Sadeka Halim, a professor of sociology at Dhaka University, told the daylong workshop organised to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People > detail> http://www.unpo.org/content/view/8630/102/