Aljazeera
2020.01.30
Under new programme, 10,000 Rohingya boys and girls to be enrolled in grades 6 to 9, a move hailed by rights groups.
Rohingya refugee children attend a class to learn Burmese language at a
refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir
Hossain/Reuters]
Rights groups and activists have welcomed
Bangladesh's decision to allow Rohingya children living in sprawling refugee camps to receive a formal education, calling it a "positive step".
Hundreds of thousands of
Rohingya children, who fled a brutal crackdown in neighbouring
Myanmar along with their parents in 2017, only receive primary education in temporary learning centres set up by international NGOs and the UN children's agency UNICEF.