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The Rohingya refugee crisis has made Rohingya women more vulnerable. Currently, Rohingya women make up approximately 67% of the refugee population and are victims of sexual violence and exploitation. [78] Of the 335,670 female refugees in the population, 70,000 (20%) are estimated to be pregnant or new mothers.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - One day in July, Rafiq slipped out of the world's largest refugee settlement in southern Bangladesh and crossed the border into Myanmar on a small boat. "We ...
The new arrivals add to the more than one million Rohingya refugees already living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, most of whom fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar ...
The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), [37] characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces, [38] [39] [40] and militant attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and ...
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus ...
Bangladesh is home to 32,000 registered Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in two camps in the southeastern district of Cox's Bazar. [31] Agence France-Presse reported in May 2015 that another 300,000 [32] unregistered Rohingya refugees were living in Bangladesh, most of them near the two official camps.
In 2017, the vast majority of Rohingya people were displaced and became refugees as a result of the genocide. [1] At the peak of the crisis in 2017, over a million Rohingya were forced to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh while others escaped to India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia.
Out of an estimated 1,084 Rohingya who came ashore in Indonesia's Aceh province this month, 360 were children, 292 women and 238 men, according to U.N. refugee agency data. Of 3,572 Rohingya who ...