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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Form body to ensure rights of Dalits
Speakers urge govt
Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a seminar urged the government to form a commission for
the development of 55 lakh Dalit people in the country to minimize the
social, political and economic gap between the mainstream and Dalit
people.
They also demanded that the government ensure professional and
political rights of these people.
Speakers and representatives of Dalit communities from home and abroad
made the demand yesterday at a seminar titled 'Development and
prospects of Dalit communities in Bangladesh: In light of political
pledges' at Institute of Education and Research (IER) in Dhaka
University.
Bangladesh Harijans Oikya Parishad, Friends Association for Integrated
Revelation (FAIR) and Manusher Jonno Foundation jointly organised the
seminar on the occasion of the five-day long South Asia Social Forum
2011.
Addressing the seminar, lawmaker Hasanul Haque Inu, president of
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, said though all people were equal according
to the constitution of Bangladesh, it was urgent to formulate a law to
protect the rights of the untouchables.
Representatives from Pakistan, India and Sweden also described the
miserable condition of Dalit people in their own countries.
Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation Mina Roy, President of
Bangladesh Harijans Oikya Parishad Krishna Lal, and its General
Secretary Nirmal Chandra Das also addressed the seminar.
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