Bangladeshi rights activists and civil society representatives called for an immediate halt on an alleged attempt by the Forest department to evict dozens of Christian tribal Khasi villagers through ...

Everyone agreed that while the status of women in indigenous communities is comparatively more favourable, certain cultural practices disproportionately affect them negatively, such as witch-hunting.

It is a serious issue concerning Khasi customs, traditional governance, and the growing interference of politics in indigenous institutions. Pa’iem Laborious Manik S. Syiem, Advisor of the Synjuk Ki ...

Ethnic Khasi people in northeast Bangladesh have lodged a police complaint against the management of a tea estate for allegedly destroying a betel leaf plantation, the mainstay of the community, with ...

For centuries, the Indigenous Khasi people in Bangladesh have been conserving natural forests to sustain their livelihoods. Changing weather is challenging their traditional betel leaf agroforestry, ...