Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord

Rhetoric cannot hide CHT accord failures

Will the government keep its promises to the indigenous communities of the CHT this time around?

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

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

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.

December 3, 2023
December 3, 2023

Rhetoric cannot hide CHT accord failures

Will the government keep its promises to the indigenous communities of the CHT this time around?

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

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.