ECDO organized two training sessions on indigenous people’s rights. Indigenous peoples from different areas could get opportunity to receive this training in their respective villages. The trainings were two days long and had a total of 52 participants, 35 men and 17 women.

The aim of the training was to sensitize Indigenous Peoples about their rights recognized by the National Constitution of Bangladesh, the UN Convention on Human Rights and other UN treaties and conventions related to Indigenous Peoples rights. ECDO organized these trainings so that as citizens of an independent country, indigenous peoples can enjoy all the rights recognized by national and international agencies. Furthermore, ECDO’s endeavor is to make the indigenous peoples understand the different duties and responsibilities of local government officers, so as to increase indigenous people’s access to local government institutions.  Resource persons from different organizations working on human rights and social activists were also present as facilitators of the training session. After getting this training, the participants became more conscious about their rights and the possible steps to be under taken once their rights are violated.

ECDO is implementing these activities under AGU Project at three indigenous people’s concentrated Upozellas under Sylhet district, Bangladesh.