Vanishing Rites is committed to the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and minorities and an end to the discriminatory violence suffered by Indigenous women in militarised regions worldwide.  

Vanishing Rites uses a combination of advocacy, campaigning, awareness raising and capacity building of communities to influence policies affecting their lives directly, both at home and internationally.   

United Nations and International Work

Ina represents Vanishing Rites and Jumma Peoples Network International at United Nations meetings on indigenous peoples.   These include the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Working Group on Indigenous Populations under the Commission on Human Rights .

UN Statements:

Bangladesh Women, Children and Youth, UN PFII 2005

Indigenous peoples facing environmental extinction, UN WGIP 2005

Indigenous peoples and conflict resolution, UN WGIP, 2005

European Human Rights Conference on Bangladesh: Extremism, Intolerance and Violence

Vanishing Rites contributed a paper to the conference on 17 th June 2005 and the report Cancer of Extremism in Bangladesh was launched in the House of Lords in 21 st November 2005.

Article:

International Perspectives on Gender Based Violence by the Military in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, 17 th June 2005

Speech at Launch of Cancer of Extremism in Bangladesh, House of Lords, 21 st November 2005

Indigenous Media Network

Vanishing Rites is working with Mapuche International, Jumma Peoples Network UK and other indigenous peoples organisations in UK and internationally to develop a vibrant network of communities that are able to use their own voices to tell their own stories.    

Indigenous Peoples Film Project

Vanishing Rites and Jumma Peoples Network UK are making a film about the Chittagong Hill Tracts; they interviewed Lord Eric Avebury, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group UK, about the current situation faced by indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the rights of indigenous people.