Effective legal framework stressed for ensuring access to land, water
Monday, 30 June 2008
Speakers at a workshop in the city Sunday underlined the need for establishing an effective legal framework so that country's marginal community specially women and indigenous people could access land, water and forest resources in a sustainable manner, reports BSS.
They also urged the political parties to include specific programmes on ensuring the rights of women and indigenous communities with timeframe in their election manifestos.
The South Asian workshop styled "Land Water and Forest Resources of the Poor, Women and Indigenous People" was organised by Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) at YWCA auditorium at Mohammadpur.
Women and Children Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury spoke as the chief guest while Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Environment and Forest and CHT Affairs Raja Devasish Roy and Charge d' Affaires of Denmark Embassy Jan Moller Hansen spoke as special guests.
ALRD Chairperson Khushi Kabir chaired the inaugural session of workshop while Executive Director Shamsul Huda gave the address of welcome. Rasheda said that more right based approach was needed in the policy to ensure using the land and forest resources by indigenous people of the country who had been left out of the mainstream development.
Hansen said, indigenous people must be given real influence on all matters that concerned their economy, political and cultural situation and development.
They also urged the political parties to include specific programmes on ensuring the rights of women and indigenous communities with timeframe in their election manifestos.
The South Asian workshop styled "Land Water and Forest Resources of the Poor, Women and Indigenous People" was organised by Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) at YWCA auditorium at Mohammadpur.
Women and Children Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury spoke as the chief guest while Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Environment and Forest and CHT Affairs Raja Devasish Roy and Charge d' Affaires of Denmark Embassy Jan Moller Hansen spoke as special guests.
ALRD Chairperson Khushi Kabir chaired the inaugural session of workshop while Executive Director Shamsul Huda gave the address of welcome. Rasheda said that more right based approach was needed in the policy to ensure using the land and forest resources by indigenous people of the country who had been left out of the mainstream development.
Hansen said, indigenous people must be given real influence on all matters that concerned their economy, political and cultural situation and development.