Violation of the Right of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh

Abstract

The International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9th August of each year to protect the rights of indigenous people worldwide, as on 23rd December 1994, the UNGA has decided that this day should be observed on 9th August each year during the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People. The rights of indigenous people have assumed a significant place in the international human rights law. In recent years the issues concerning indigenous peoples have not only been received the national and global attention, but have attained the status of customary international law and thus legally binding upon all States. However, it is seems that more than 450 million indigenous people are living in the world in more than ninety countries. This being the reality, there has also been a system of slow disappearance of these local peoples over the last half century. But they still markedly constitute populations of many states. The indigenous peoples are usually found in disadvantageous positions compared to a national mainstream population. Probably a normal rule is that, they are deprived economically, financially and socially, denied their rights to education, equal treatment, land ownership and many other activities that the general people are engaged.