Topic: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Country: Bangladesh
Delegate Name: Harrison Powell
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Bangladesh position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Many countries around the world have people who have been living there for thousands of years. These people are classified as indigenous people have now been fought against for years. They have also been helped by current people living there who moved hundreds of years after the indigenous people. Even though they have been helped they are still oppressed. Indigenous people are will almost always be minorities in almost every country they inhabit in the world and are often be discriminated against. Indigenous people have been helped by the United Nations before with the writing of the Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples. The declaration stated that Indigenous Peoples have the same rights as any other human in the countries that voted yes. Indigenous people are recognized but, are discriminated and it is up to the United Nations to help.
In Bangladesh there is one common ethnicity and that is Bengali. Bengali ethnicity makes up ninety eight percent of the of the country. The other two percent of the country is made up of tribes of indigenous people, whom almost all of them live in the Chittagong Hill Tract area or CHT. Larger Tribes in the CHT like the Charma and Marma people have grown accustomed to regular practices performed by the Bengali people. Smaller groups in the area have kept their traditional values and have received negative impact by the Bengali people who control the nations’ politics. The government of Bangladesh recognizes twenty seven ethnic groups in Bangladesh but experts believe there are around seventy five groups. Bangladesh does believe in helping indigenous people but not all people have been recognized. Bangladesh is a part of the 2015 agreement that will further sustainable development by 2030. Goals that Bangladesh has agreed to are no poverty and zero hunger by 2030 which includes indigenous people. Bangladesh has taken a major step forward helping indigenous people by setting sustainable development goals. Bangladesh has also signed the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples which went into effect in 2007. Many people from Bangladesh helped write the Declaration that further helped indigenous people around the world.
Bangladesh believes in helping indigenous people in Bangladesh and around the world. Bangladesh will continue to pursue the seventeen goals they agreed to achieve by 2030 through sustainable development. Bangladesh will still abide by what they signed on the Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples. Bangladesh does believe that the United Nations should be able to intervene on other countries if other countries need help or their goals are not reached. Bangladesh believes other countries that have signed the Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples and have agreed to sustainable development will agree with Bangladesh’s positions.
