Last 9^th August, 2009 ECDO celebrated World Indigenous Day in Sylhet with other local indigenous people’s organization. Rally, discussion session and cultural program were organized on the occasion of the day. There were more than one thousand indigenous peoples from different indigenous communities took participate in that whole day program. Besides of these there were present City Mayor, government officials, civil society members, lawyers, journalists, academicians and other local leaders. In the discussion session, indigenous leaders raised to the government to ensure following some of their basic demands;

1. 1. Constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples.
2. 2. To form another special standing committee for indigenous at Sylhet City corporation and at union level where indigenous peoples are living.
3. 3. To ensure primary school for all indigenous community villages.
4. 4. To recruit indigenous community teachers at primary school considering the problem of language barrier for indigenous children.
5. To ensure mother tongue primary education for indigenous children.
6. To ensure government scholarship for the poor meritorious indigenous students.
7. To form a separate plane land indigenous ministry.
8. To preserve quota at college level and University level (especially for Sylhet region) for indigenous students for a specific period of time.
9. To provide training & loan facilities for ensuring employment opportunity of indigenous youths and girls.
10. To provide hostel facilities for the poor indigenous college and university students.
11. At last to ensure land rights for the indigenous community.

At the end of discussion session the honorable guests were also disclose the journal Annual Review of Ethnic Affairs Vol V, which is being published by ECDO every year on the occasion of world indigenous day since 2005. Mentionable that most of the indigenous leaders appreciated very much our honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for her important message on this day. The program was held very successfully with support from Oxfam GB at M. Saifur Rahaman auditorium, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Most of the local and national dailies covered this news emphasizing very highly.