People from national minority communities on Sunday celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples across the country demanding their constitutional recognition as ‘indigenous’ and recognition of their traditional land rights in the constitution. Different socio-cultural and political organisations and groups organised discussions, rallies and processions
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Constitutional recognition demanded for ethnic minorities
Speakers in a discussion on Friday in the Rajshahi city called on the government to constitutionally recognise the ethnic minority communities of the country. They also demanded a separate land commission like that of the Chittagong Hill Tracts to restore the land rights of the plain land ethnic minorities