Donors cannot logically justify funding humanitarian NGOs and agencies to provide education for Rohingya children on the basis of progressive implementation by the government of Bangladesh when the government is fully denying those same children’s immediate right to primary education. In addition, basic humanitarian standards on education explicitly reject the distinction between immediate and long-term access. UNHCR’s “Emergency standard” for education provides that “refugee children and youth are able to participate in accredited national education systems and programmes under similar conditions to local children.” On different issues, UNHCR sometimes distinguishes an “emergency standard” from a “longer-term standard,” but with regards to education, “the same standards apply to long term and emergency situations.”299 The World Bank, as well as UNICEF, UNHCR, Education Cannot Wait, and other funders and humanitarian actors, have endorsed the “Education Charter for Action,” which restates their commitments under the Global Compact for Refugees to “provide quality primary and secondary education in safe learning environments for all refugee children, and to do so within a few months of the initial displacement,” and to “promote tertiary education, skills training and vocational education,” and in this regard, “to turn our promises into tangible changes for refugees; in long-term plans that we invest in, implement and review in collaboration with host countries.”3°° The World Bank stated that as part of its fulfillment of these commitments, it is investing in education in Bangladesh and will help the government “develop strategic education sector plans that include displaced populations and cover education services at all levels, from early childhood education to tertiary and adult education.”3% Donors should pressure the government of Bangladesh to permit formal, certified, quality education to refugee children, regardless of their status, whether inside or outside of the camps. In order to do so, donors first need to squarely acknowledge that Bangladesh’s restrictions violate the right to education. Donors should affirm that the only education that Rohingya are allowed to access in the camps, the GIEP, does not meet their own 299 UNHCR, “Education emergency standard,” https://emergency.unhcr.org/entry/53852/education-emergency-standard, accessed September 3, 2019. Bullet points in original. 3°° High Level Meeting on Action for Refugee Education, “Education Charter for Action,” https://www.actionforrefugeeeducation.net/charter-for-action (accessed September 3, 2019). 3°1 World Bank, “Commitments,” High Level Meeting on Action for Refugee Education, p. 1, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5bo0e973917ee4023caf5f4/t/5baa77af24a69467b83e9eea/1537898418369/Worl d+Bank+Commitments+on+Action+for+Refugee+Education.pdf (accessed September 3, 2019). “ARE WE HUMAN?” 74