Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), in association with some community based Adivasi organizations, has organized a roundtable conference during the Adivasi Festival 2006 season to address the critical conditions and concerns of Adivasis.
Adivasis are disadvantaged and marginalized peoples today. In many instances they have lost their identities and languages. This has severe consequences in their social, political, economic and cultural life.
Many of the factors leading to such conditions are consequence of wrong development policies and actions, strategies of the development actors and non-implementation of national and international instruments that commit to ensure rights.
While the lead discussants will reflect on specific concerns of different regions, the participants will have time to share their knowledge and thoughts.
Special attention will be paid to the critical human rights and development concerns of the ethnic communities and tea plantation workers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Moddhupur, Sylhet region, and northwest of the country. Open-cut mining in the Dinajpur will be particularly attended. |
