Houston for the Rohingya
Since 2017, the Houston Muslim community has joined with Community Partners International to support Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sheltering in Bangladesh.
Over the years, the Houston community’s generosity has raised more than $250,000, helping Rohingya refugees access essential services like health care, safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
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Overview
In 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled violence in neighboring Myanmar and sought shelter in Bangladesh, joining several hundred thousand Rohingya who had previously fled persecution in Myanmar. The United Nations estimates that there are more than one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in Bangladesh. More than half are children.
Who are the Rohingya?
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority from Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Rohingya people in Myanmar are denied citizenship, basic rights, and protections. As the world’s largest stateless population, they are extremely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
How did the Rohingya refugee crisis begin?
Rohingya communities in Myanmar have experienced decades of persecution. Since the 1990s, more than one million Rohingya have fled Myanmar. In August 2017, a massive outbreak of violence forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
Where are Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh sheltering?
Rohingya refugees are sheltering in 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar District, Chattogram (Chittagong) Division in southeastern Bangladesh, and on Bhasan Char Island in the Bay of Bengal.
Kutupalong Refugee Camp, a conglomeration of 23 camps in Cox’s Bazar District, considered to be the world’s largest refugee camp, houses nearly 800,000 Rohingya refugees.
What are conditions like for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh?
With few opportunities for employment or schooling, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are almost wholly dependent on aid for survival. Rohingya refugees are experiencing poor and worsening living conditions.
The camps are cramped and crowded, with population density exceeding 50,000 people per square kilometer in some areas (more than five times that of New York City). Crime and violence are rising, with women and children especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
As the world’s attention on the Rohingya crisis has waned, funding has fallen. Food rations were cut by one-third in 2023 to just 27 cents per person per day.
Bangladesh has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention and has no national legislation that specifically governs refugee affairs. Consequently, Rohingya refugees have few formal rights or protections in Bangladesh.
What essential services do Rohingya refugees need?
Rohingya refugees need support for essential health care, food security and nutrition, shelter and non-food items, safe water, sanitation, hygiene, protection, education, livelihoods and skills development.
What about Bangladesh host communities?
With Rohingya refugees comprising one-third of Cox’s Bazar District’s population, Bangladesh host communities also need support to promote well-being and peaceful coexistence. Their needs include support for livelihoods, safe water, hygiene and sanitation, and cleaner and sustainable energy.
What about the Rohingya who remain in Myanmar?
Around 600,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar, mostly in Rakhine State. An estimated 130,000 of them are interned in detention camps with strict limitations on livelihoods, movement, education, health care, food and shelter. Rohingya people living outside of the camps also live with heavy restrictions.
The recent escalation of conflict in Rakhine State places Rohingya communities there at significantly increased risk of violence and persecution.
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