Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh Are Being Denied an Education, Rights Group Says

TIME
By Amy Gunia
December 3, 2019

Rohingya children in the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar Bangladesh on February 14, 2019. Kazi Salahuddin Razu—/NurPhoto/Getty

The Bangladeshi government is violating the right to education of nearly 400,000 Rohingya children residing in the country, a rights group claimed Tuesday.

Rohingya children are prohibited from enrolling in local schools, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, basing the allegation on interviews with teachers, aid workers, government officials and more than 150 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. More than 700,000 mostly-Muslim Rohingya refugees from majority-Buddhist Myanmar’s western­ Rakhine state live in crowded camps in the country.

Bangladesh: Rohingya Children Denied Education

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Unlawful Restrictions on Schooling Risk Creating a Lost Generation

(Bangkok) – The government of Bangladesh is blocking aid groups from providing any meaningful education to Rohingya children in refugee camps and banning the children from attending schools outside the camps, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government should urgently lift the restrictions that unlawfully deprive almost 400,000 Rohingya refugee children of their right to education.