On 22 August 2018, two girls belonging to the Tripura ethnic minority were allegedly raped by Bangladeshi border guards in Bandarban District. This case occurred only four weeks after a nine-year-old Tripura girl was sexually assaulted and killed in a nearby hill district. Sexual violence against indigenous girls and women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts remains extremely worrying. UNPO therefore...
On 22 August 2018, two girls belonging to the Tripura ethnic minority were allegedly raped by Bangladeshi border guards in Bandarban District. This case occurred only four weeks after a nine-year-old...
On 22 January 2018, after a random search operation undertaken by the army in the Orachari village, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region (CHT) of Bangladesh, two men from the army entered the house of...
The Association of Indigenous Students of Shahjala University of Science and Technology formed a human chain and rallied demanding safe roads and justice for rape victims of the Chittagong Hill Tracts....
Abdi Mohamoud Omar had been running his own violent sub-state entity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for many years – having never been held accountable for his crimes. However, the recent violence...
In Iran’s southernmost region Sistan and Balochistan, forty-one girls have been kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to sexual abuse and violence. The public anger and outcry led to the organisation...
Despite making slavery formally illegal in 1981, Mauritania’s enduring caste system pushes the marginalized Haratin people further into poverty and banishes a considerable number of them to lives...
On Monday 11 June 2018, UNPO submitted a report for the 72nd session of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), during which Ethiopia will...
As one on the most exposed social groups in the Chittagong Hills Tracts (CHT) region, in Bangladesh, indigenous women – and particularly girl s- continue to be subject to severe human rights violations,...
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