The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed each year on August 9, serves as an important reminder of the many injustices that take place in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

We expect that those who form the interim government will respect difference–be it of gender, religion, ethnicity, or language.

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh observe the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with a call for recognising them as indigenous people in the constitution.

It was their day. They gathered, joined hands and spoke up to draw the government's attention to their demands for their rights and

9 August marks International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Dhaka, through various social and cultural organisations, has observed the day.