By Verena Hölzl
Sept. 29, 2025,
World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee settlement. But no one living there is attending the conference at the United Nations.
Rohingya refugees at a camp near Amtoli, Bangladesh, in 2017.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York TimesThey live in the world’s largest collection of refugee camps, which they are rarely allowed to leave. Their shops there have been bulldozed and their schools closed. In their homeland, warring factions seem to agree only on a shared contempt for the stateless exiles.