Summary “States and relevant stakeholders will contribute resources and expertise to expand and enhance the quality and inclusiveness of national education systems to facilitate access by refugee[s] ... and special efforts will be mobilized to minimize the time refugee boys and girls spend out of education, ideally a maximum of three months after arrival.” Global Compact on Refugees, September 2018 “While it is expected that repatriation [of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar] will take place within two years, the children and adolescents in the camps will lose their golden time for learning which is a global concern. ... [Bangladesh] issued guidelines to provide “informal” learning ... [that] chooses to be modest in its aspirations.” Government of Bangladesh, Guidelines on Informal Education Programming (GIEP), May 5, 2019 “If they stay for 20 years, you’ll need a curriculum, but if it’s just a year or two, then it’s different ... There is no possibility for them to take the Bangladeshi curriculum.” Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, in charge of implementing Bangladesh government policy on Rohingya refugees, February 2019 “Education is a basic human right. But today, why [do] we have not this right? Are we not human?” Sawyeddollah, a Rohingya refugee in the Cox’s Bazar camps, November 2019 Mohamed Tua Sin, 15, was in class 9 in Myanmar when he was forced to flee to Bangladesh in late August 2017. Attacks by the Myanmar military forced 740,000 ethnic Rohingya, like Mohamed Tua Sin, to flee their communities in northern Rakhine State and cross the Naf River into Bangladesh. The campaign of ethnic cleansing included countless apparent crimes against humanity. A United Nations-backed fact-finding mission found that Myanmar’s top generals should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide. 1 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | DECEMBER 2019