Indigenous Women

Why we need to hear women’s voices from the hills

Hill women remain largely invisible within a system that does not recognise their ancestral kinship with the land.

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples / Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.

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.

Editorial / Indigenous women and girls need protection

Despite the government's pledge to adopt a zero tolerance for violence against women and children, there has not been significant progress in the ground realities.

June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025

Why we need to hear women’s voices from the hills

Hill women remain largely invisible within a system that does not recognise their ancestral kinship with the land.

August 8, 2022
August 8, 2022

Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.

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.

June 16, 2015
June 16, 2015

Indigenous women and girls need protection

Despite the government's pledge to adopt a zero tolerance for violence against women and children, there has not been significant progress in the ground realities.