Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. (Aroved for ratification by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 and entry into force on 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII). Minority rights apply to ethnic, religious, linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples, who are an integral part of international human rights law. As the minority women are one of the most trageted victims for torture and systematic discriminations, like other rights (such as children's rights, refugee rights), the issue of the minority women‟s rights MUST be a legal framework designed to ensure that a specific group which is in the highest vulnerable situation, disadvantaged or marginalised position in society, is able to achieve equality and is protected from all forms of persecutions and discriminations. Our aim is to establish and then promot the practical respect for the human rights of ethnic, religious, linguistic minorities women and indigenous women in Bangladesh. While initially, the United Nations treated indigenous peoples as a sub-category of minorities, there is an expanding body of international law specifically devoted to them, in particular Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (adopted 14 September 2007). Minority Women in Bangladesh. Saying specifically about the rights of Bangladeshi minority women, we must cite the wise quote: „Human rights issue does not include the rights of the women.‟ (Charlotte Bunch. 1990. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights. Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 4 (Nov.,1990), pp. 486-498). In Bangladesh, the minority women are mainly deprived from equal rights to education, economic and employment sectors, political involvements, sexual, social, idelogical, religious and spiritual/pastoral lives. Of course, not all these deprivations are because of gendaral and political motivation. But whatever the motivation and/or ideology is there, undoubtly the minority women are freequently being victimised. Moreover, there has been no strong legislative and pratical solusion of these on-going problems in Bangladesh. And that is probably the fandamental difference for the issue of minority women‟s rights from the rest of the world. Bangladesh was independent in 1971 through a long nine months blooded war, where significant contribution and sacrifice had been done by the female population. However, the female sadly achieved the right in 1972 to vote a full year of the male. This constitutional deprivation have become a continuum, because of which the most victim part became the minority women ( as stated above, multiple discrimination for their double vulnerability). 2

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