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Sunday, June 3, 2012

A Case from the Chittagong Hill tracts

Insecurity of Indigenous Women: Like indigenous women in the other parts of the world,indigenous women of Bangladesh have a low socio-economic status when compared with their men,and when compared with women from the plains regions of the country. There are approximately 45 indiginous peoples in Bangladesh.By custom, indigenous women's life in Bangladesh is shaped by the patriarchal and patrilineal nature of the social system. An indigenous women is considered to be there to bear children, to serve her father, her brother, and later her husband and her family,including her in-laws in some cases.Like Bangali women in the plains,the indigenous women of Bangladesh are also traditionally regarded as occupying a lower social standing then their men.The indigenous women's status is low in terms of the right to inheritance,legal and political rights,decision-making powers and so forth. Against this backdrop, this attempts to xamine the situation of indigenous women of the CHT. The human rights situation in the CHT was especially bad during the year when the political unrest and internal conflict was ng on 1973-1995.Women constituted the most vulnerable section of the population and were exposed to various forms of sexual violence, including relocation programmes,military operations, molestation,assult and rap. S.H

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