| we hh iF In late August \~ 4 2017, Joe a campaign of ethnic cleansing 740,000 ethnic Rohingya to flee their communities by the Myanmar military forced and cross into Bangladesh, which opened its borders to them. Bangladesh is also providing refuge to roughly 300,000 Rohingya who had fled previous waves of persecution in Myanmar. But the Bangladesh government has made clear that the Rohingya will not be allowed to remain in the country. To that end it is preventing them from integrating into the local Bangladeshi society. In furtherance of this policy the government is violating the right to education of nearly 400,000 school-age Rohingya children. “Are We Not Human?”: Denial of Education for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh documents how Bangladesh is barring Rohingya children from enrolling in schools in local communities outside the camps or taking national school examinations. Inside the camps, not only does the government not provide any education, it is also blocking UN humanitarian agencies and aid groups, funded by international donors, from providing Rohingya children with formal, accredited education The impediment to schooling for Rohingya refugee children is not a lack of resources, but the Bangladesh government’s policy of deliberate deprivation of education, compounding the harm that a generation of children suffered in Myanmar and flatly violating Bangladesh’s obligation to fulfill their right to education. This report urges the Bangladesh government to end this policy and calls on foreign humanitarian donors to pressure the government to allow for the provision of formal, certified, quality education to Rohingya children, without discrimination. hrw.org (above) Posters inside a “learning center” ina Rohingya refugee camp in CAM ltt ATLA ase ken Aid groups established Tora e ew LLL As oXeLeneM oh MMs Tel Ls (-4f) ele TAIL LAO ROLL LLL formal education. © 2019 Human Rights Watch / Bill Van Esveld (front cover) Rohingya students attend class at an unofficial school, established by Rohingya who were teachers in Myanmar, ina refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 17, 2019. Unofficial schools are Rohingya refugee children’s only access to secondary-level education. © 2019 Human Rights Watch