Kapaeeng Foundation

On 25-26 January 2013 the 5th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Kapaeeng Foundation (KF) took places at the CBCB Center in Dhaka. Total 50 participants attended this meeting and amongst them 30 members of KF organizational representative and 20 members from the Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Defenders Network, Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network and Indigenous Youth […]

Human rights violations against indigenous peoples, including reported cases of violence, land grabbing and dispossession, intensified alarmingly in 2012, says a Kapaeeng Foundation report. In 2012, 16 people including 7 women were reported to be killed and 23 were either arrested or detained throughout the year whereas around 150 were tortured or intimidated, and around […]

On 5 January 2012 at 11:00 am Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network (BIWN) and Hill Women’s Federation (HWF) organised human chain demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma in front of National Museum at Shahbag in Dhaka. BIWN and HWF rejected CID’s final report on the case of abduction of Kalpana Chakma and demanded independent, impartial and credible […]

On 19 October 2012 at 3.00 pm, civic rights group organised citizen solidarity and protest gathering and cultural programme against recent communal and racial attack in Ramu and other areas of Cox’s Bazar. The demonstration was held by citizens group of all walks of life under the banner of “We want non-communal and racial discrimination-free […]

On 17-18 July 2012 a community seminar titled ‘Community Seminar on ILO Convention No. 107 & 169 and UNDRIP for Indigenous Communities and Mainstream People of North Bengal’ was Organized by Kapaeeng Foundation and Jatiya Adivasi Parishad with the Support of International Labour Organization (ILO) at Parjatan Motel Conference room, Rangpur Sadar, Rangpur district. Mr. […]

Leaders of the indigenous women’s organisations demanded to ensure justice to the indigenous women by taking necessary step to stop all kind of violence against indigenous women. They said that the biggest concern in brutal violence against indigenous women was the lack of access to justice and absolute impunity that perpetrators enjoy. Violence against indigenous […]

On 27 June 2011 a book launching program was held at the National Planning Academy hosted by Kapaeeng Foundation and Oxfam-GB. The law book entitled ‘Compendium on National and International Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh’ was edited by the Chakma circle chief Barrister Devasish Roy, assistant attorney general Pratikar Chakma and lawyer Shirin Lira. The […]