CHT Accord

Peace remains elusive to CHT’s Indigenous Peoples

Will this culture of impunity be continued forever in the CHT?

Can the interim govt make progress with the CHT Accord?

To bring resolution, the historic CHT Accord was signed in 1997 to ensure a perennial solution to the CHT crisis through peaceful and political means.

Implementing CHT Accord: Will the government listen to the UN call?

There is no room to think that the deluge will stop if the government continues to ignore international calls for CHT Accord implementation.

2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

Protect Mro community from violent land grabbers

The government must punish perpetrators and ensure indigenous land rights

CHT Accord implementation still incomplete

How much longer must the people of CHT wait?

An environmental and livelihood crisis in Bandarban's Lama

It is clear that an influential quarter in the region doesn’t care about the CHT Accord.

Editorial / 20 years of CHT Accord

It has been 20 years since the Accord was penned between the Shanti Bahini and the government of Bangladesh, but still one hears a murmur of frustration in the Hills over the fact that not all the provisos of the Accord have been fully implemented.

20 years of the elusive CHT Accord

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord (CHT Accord), signed in 1997 with the promise to end armed conflict and grant a host of benefits to the indigenous Jumma people in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh, has rather increased tension in the last 20 years.

October 4, 2024
October 4, 2024

Peace remains elusive to CHT’s Indigenous Peoples

Will this culture of impunity be continued forever in the CHT?

August 16, 2024
August 16, 2024

Can the interim govt make progress with the CHT Accord?

To bring resolution, the historic CHT Accord was signed in 1997 to ensure a perennial solution to the CHT crisis through peaceful and political means.

May 6, 2023
May 6, 2023

Implementing CHT Accord: Will the government listen to the UN call?

There is no room to think that the deluge will stop if the government continues to ignore international calls for CHT Accord implementation.

January 4, 2023
January 4, 2023

2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

January 3, 2023
January 3, 2023

Protect Mro community from violent land grabbers

The government must punish perpetrators and ensure indigenous land rights

December 1, 2022
December 1, 2022

CHT Accord implementation still incomplete

How much longer must the people of CHT wait?

November 9, 2022
November 9, 2022

An environmental and livelihood crisis in Bandarban's Lama

It is clear that an influential quarter in the region doesn’t care about the CHT Accord.

December 4, 2017
December 4, 2017

20 years of CHT Accord

It has been 20 years since the Accord was penned between the Shanti Bahini and the government of Bangladesh, but still one hears a murmur of frustration in the Hills over the fact that not all the provisos of the Accord have been fully implemented.

December 2, 2017
December 2, 2017

20 years of the elusive CHT Accord

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord (CHT Accord), signed in 1997 with the promise to end armed conflict and grant a host of benefits to the indigenous Jumma people in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh, has rather increased tension in the last 20 years.

January 3, 2016
January 3, 2016

PM for changing marginalised people’s fate

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses changing the fate of marginal people for the country’s overall socio-economic development.