School closures push Rohingya refugee children into marriage and work


Mohammed Faruq holds the hand of his daughter Nahima Bibi, 9, as they walk along the refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 17, 2025. - Reuters

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Begum, a Rohingya refugee, is relieved she married off one of her seven daughters before funding cuts closed her school and thousands of others in Bangladesh’s cramped refugee camps, affecting nearly half a million children.

The daughter, Begum's second-born, was 16.

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