“In the Rohingya refugee communities, especially with whom I work, the progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-3 (health and wellbeing) and SDG-5 (gender equality) has been deeply uneven and ...
In a bamboo thatched women’s centre in Kutupalong, more than a dozen Rohingya refugees are sitting closely together on mats and concentrating so fiercely on their sewing that barely a sound can be ...
In a packed meeting room at the Camp-in-Charge’s office, Rohingya refugee Tansima* raises her hand to speak up for her community. “We need more street lights,” says Tansima, 28, who is an elected ...
Growing up as a refugee in Malaysia, Hasnah Hussin was barred from public education, so she hung around the homes her mother cleaned, learning the alphabet and numbers from Malay families. When she ...
For Rohingya women, who rarely left their rural homes because of religious traditions, the density of the refugee camps can be disorienting. “In certain parts of the camps, you have 90,000 people ...
MEULABOH, Indonesia — Huddled on board the boat, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear. The captain and crew who she says had tortured her and three other women and girls were not finished. And the ...