Indigenous women's traditional knowledge and practices can help us to survive with nature instead of abusing it. In Bangladesh, their inherent value are yet to be fully understood and duly recognised by the scientific community, development practitioners and policymakers alike.

Representatives of the ethnic community are staging a token hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding for their land rights.

We fully endorse the call for implementation of the ILO convention 107 to protect land rights of the indigenous peoples of the country.

Women are paying more bribes than men for availing services at land offices, a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report says.