Roving with Rohingyas….

Prothomalo
Guila Clara Kessous
Published: 08 Mar 2022

Life of Rohingya Women' by Rohingya artist Enayet Khan ,Courtesy

‘The crisis situation disproportionately affects women, girls and the most vulnerable and marginalized Rohingya refugee population groups by reinforcing, perpetuating and exacerbating pre-existing, persistent gender inequalities, gender-based violence and discrimination.’ – UN Women

The first time I was approached to work on the Rohingyas’ community was when a non-governmental organization approached me knowing my humanitarian work as an 'artivist ' (artist + activist). Indeed, as a UNESCO Artist for Peace, I am using performing art to help survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress disorderto better express themselves. This NGO saw my work in Congo with women victims of excision and decided to have me work in Bangladesh for the Rohingya women population especially.

'What choice do we have?': Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

THE Edition

24 December 2020 

 Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met.

This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Malaysia.

Wed by phone or video apps, the girls have little say in such unions and rely on occasional calls to build a relationship with their new partners as they begin treacherous journeys to reach them.

Rohingya Women: A Life of Desperation

albawaba

Published December 17th, 2020

Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met.

This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometers away in Malaysia.

Virtual weddings and international betrothals can seem an ideal solution.

Real Life Heroes: building a safe space for Rohingya women refugees

UN News

18 August 2020

Migrants and Refugees

 OCHA/Vincent Tremeau
Hakimpara refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi architect Rizvi Hassan is the driving force behind the construction of a safe space for Rohingya women and girls, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, site of the world’s largest camp for displaced people, and home to around a million Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar. The community centre caters to a marginalized, vulnerable group, at risk of gender-based violence. 

The centre, designed and built by Rohingyas, provides counselling and training to the women and girls, as part of a project by Bangladeshi NGO BRAC and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Mr. Hassan shares his story as part of the #RealLifeHeroes campaign, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), ahead of this year’s World Humanitarian Day, on 19 August.

UN Women and Rohingya women at the frontline of COVID-19 response

reliefweb
1 Jun 2020
Author: Sunee Singh

Colorful masks made by the Rohigya women & girls. © UN Women/Nadira Islam

 

The world in lockdown has created a ‘profound shock to our societies and economies, and women are at the heart of care and response efforts underway[1]. Primarily as caregivers, women are not just sustaining families, but also serving as front-line responders, mainly in the health and service sector.

Rape, abuse, violence: Rohingya women and girls most vulnerable in refugee camps

Star2.com

April 26, 2019

By S. INDRAMALAR

Photos By The Star/Azhar Mahfof

Young mother Senoura is trying the best she can to make sure her baby is not malnourished. But with hardly any money, depending only on food rations, she is worried for her young one.

Every morning, 20-year-old Gulbahar rushes to finish her housework and cook for her family so she can spend more time at the Safe Space for Women and Girls, a women-only space supported by Unicef at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

The safe space, she says, is more than just a respite from the harsh conditions in the camp (and the tiny shelter she lives in). In that female-only space, Gulbahar is being empowered and equipped with vocational skills that she never thought she’d have the chance to acquire.

New training project launched for women in Bangladesh refugee communities

Ekklesia

By agency reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

A new training project in southeast Bangladesh to promote self-reliance among women in communities hosting refugees, as well as among Rohingya refugee women, has become operational in Cox’s Bazar. The project is potentially a game-changer for women in these communities. It is being supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

UNHCR has teamed up with the Ayesha Abed Foundation (AAF) – the humanitarian arm of our NGO partner BRAC – to support a programme designed to provide income opportunities by developing skills in craft production.

Gigi Hadid tears up while championing Rohingya women.

ARAB NEWS

April 07, 2019

DUBAI: US-Palestinian model Gigi Hadid teared up while accepting Variety magazine’s Power of Women honour over the weekend.

The 23-year-old supermodel, who is regularly spotted on catwalks around the world, was recognized for her work as a UNICEF ambassador.

Two 'traffickers' held in Dhaka.

The Daily Star
Thursday, "March 28, 2019"
4 Rohingya women were being sent to Saudi Arabia

Staff Correspondent

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested two members of a human trafficking gang in the capital, who were trying to traffic four Rohingya women to Saudi Arabia by forging documents.