Bishwa Zaker Monjil
The holy Lailatul Barat Prayers will be held at Bishwa Zaker Monjil on Thusday night . The night-long programme will begin from 11 May evening after Magrif prayer. The Doa-Mahfil will be held at Biswa Zaker Monjil at Sadarpur Upazila of Faridpur district. The programme includes Telawt-E-Quran,Zikir-Azgar, Milad Mahfil, Morakaba Mushaheda holy Rahmat palone and Fateha Sharif, Nofal prayer, Ebadate Bondhagi and holy Rawoza Sharif Ziarat. A large number of Zakerans, Ashekans, Muslim and all others devotees from home different parts of the country and abroad are expected to attend the World Grand Bishwa Holy Lailatul Barat prayers . All necessary arrangements have already been made for devotees under the supervision of peerzada Khwaza-en-a Rahmat Hazrat Alhaz Khwaza Mahfuzul Haque Muhammad Bakibelah Mozaddadi, the elder son of Bishwa woli Khawzababa Faridpuri Peerzada Mostafa Amir Faysal Mozaddadi, youngest son of Khwazababa Faridpuri, has requested all religious people to attend the holy Lailatul Barat prayers doa mahfil at Bishwa Zaker Monjil . Peerzada Mahfuzul hoaque and Mostafa Amir Faysal son of Bishwa woli Khwazababa Faridpuri they will meet Zakerarans, Ashekans and devotees on the day.
UN’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has recently made a series of recommendations to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conservation activities, says a press release. The Permanent Forum met in New York for the last two weeks, and, as part of the proceedings, heard from Milka Chepkorir, a Sengwer woman from Kenya, who presented a joint statement on behalf of Forest Peoples Programme, Natural Justice and 20 other organisations. The statement highlighted the lack of implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of conservation policies and practices. Milka Chepkorir shared with delegates recent human rights infringements from Kenya, where well over 90 Sengwer homes were burned down, allegedly by the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), a government body. The incident was not isolated but was one of many forced evictions resulting in the destruction of Sengwer homes since the 1970s: evictions that have intensified since first the World Bank and now the EU began funding KFS. The apparent justification for the human rights violations is that the Sengwer should not be on conserved areas, yet, under international law and according to Kenyan Constitution, the Sengwer have a right to their ancestral lands, lands they have occupied – and indeed have conserved effectively – for generations. Speaking after the Forum, Milka Chepkorir said: “Too often, indigenous peoples like the Sengwer are evicted from their land in the name of conservation. We Sengwer have lived in harmony with our forests for generations. Evicting us from our land doesn’t protect it; it makes our lands vulnerable to exploitation by others, including those who present themselves as conservationists in order to try to justify evicting us and taking our ancestral lands. We need protection to stop this happening, and to secure our communities, our forests and our future.”
Joji Carino, senior policy advisor at Forest Peoples Programme, added: “This year marks 10 years since the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The conservation community must show greater commitment and action to address the continuing human rights violations inflicted on indigenous peoples, on whose lands and territories, biological diversity is sustainably used and most effectively conserved”.
The Permanent Forum made a number of recommendations for action over the coming year, including undertaking a study to examine Conservation and Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights by two of its expert members. The Forum addressed the specific situation in Kenya, urging the government there to recognise and formally protect the land and resource rights of the Ogiek and Sengwer peoples. The Forum also urged the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to establish a task force on conservation and human rights to work with indigenous peoples’ communities and organisations both to articulate the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conservation initiatives, and to continue to promote grievance mechanisms and avenues for redress in the context of conservation action, including the Whakatane Mechanism.The full recommendations will be published in June.
