Uploaded November 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
🎓 Anmoy Kiron Chakma hails from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh and belongs to the Chakma indigenous community. While growing up in conflict-ridden CHT, he witnessed continuous discrimination, violence, and human rights violations on his fellow indigenous groups by the military and security forces. This led him to getting involved in human rights initiatives in high school.
➔ He is an active member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Defenders’ Network, the Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum, and the Kapaeeng Foundation, a human rights organization for indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. He represented his indigenous community at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and at the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples conference.
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🎓 Anmoy Kiron Chakma hails from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh and belongs to the Chakma indigenous community. While growing up in conflict-ridden CHT, he witnessed continuous discrimination, violence, and human rights violations on his fellow indigenous groups by the military and security forces. This led him to getting involved in human rights initiatives in high school.
➔ He is an active member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Defenders’ Network, the Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum, and the Kapaeeng Foundation, a human rights organization for indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. He represented his indigenous community at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and at the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples conference.
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