The UN has called on Bangladesh to ease restrictions on freedom of movement and access to income-generating activities for Rohingya refugees, as is required to respect their rights.257 In other refugee contexts, restrictions on freedom of movement and bans on access to the labor market for adult refugees have exacerbated the prevalence of exploitative child labor among refugee children.258 Denial of Birth Registration A policy that risks prolonging the denial of Rohingya refugee children’s right to education and exacerbating the low rates of school enrollment among Bangladeshi children in Cox’s Bazar, is Bangladesh’s suspension of official birth registration for all children — both Bangladeshi and Rohingya — in the district. Bangladesh requires families to present a birth certificate for children to access education. Although Bangladeshi law, in line with international obligations, provides for the right of every child to birth registration, the government has suspended all birth registration in Cox’s Bazar since the influx of Rohingya refugees in August 2017, including for Bangladeshi children born there, due to fears that Rohingya families would try to bribe officials to provide birth certificates that falsely stated that their children were Bangladeshi citizens.259 The first sentence on the homepage of Bangladesh’s Office of the Registrar General of Birth and Death website quotes article 7 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: “Every child has the right to a name, birth registration and nationality. As far as possible every child has the right to know and be cared for by his/her parents,” and described how the law had been revised with support from UNICEF.26 The Births and Deaths Registration Act of 2004 requires the registration of the birth of “any person” in Bangladesh, including “any 257 See “International Legal Standards,” Section Ill. 258 Human Rights Watch, “When | Picture My Future, | See Nothing”: Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey, November 8, 2015, “Economic Hardship,” Section II, https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/11/08/when-i-picture-my- future-i-see-nothing/barriers-education-syrian-refugee-children; “Growing Up Without an Education”: Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon, July 19, 2016, “Work Restrictions,” Section Il, https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/19/growing-without-education/barriers-education-syrian-refugee-children-lebanon; “We’re Afraid for Their Future”: Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan, August 16, 2016, “EconomicRelated Barriers: Work Restrictions,” Section Ill, https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/08/16/were-afraid-their-future/barriers- education-syrian-refugee-children-jordan. 259 Human Rights Watch interviews with NGO staff, Cox’s Bazar, August-September 2019; “Birth registration in Cox’s Bazar to restart soon,” The Business Standard, September 12, 2019, https://tbsnews.net/bangladesh/birth-registration-coxs-bazar- restart-soon (accessed September 17, 2019). 260 Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration, “Welcome all to the office of the Registrar General, Birth & Death Registration,” no date, http://br.lgd.gov.bd/english.html (accessed June 10, 2019). “ARE WE HUMAN?” 66