Recommendations
To the Government of Bangladesh:
Lift educational restrictions that violate Rohingya refugee children’s right to
education without discrimination and allow them to access formal education,
instruction in the Bangla language, secondary education, and the
Bangladeshi curriculum.
Working with the organisations in the humanitarian education sector, accredit the
education that they are providing to Rohingya children in the camps and ensure it
is a pathway to formal education.
Lift restrictions to allow humanitarian actors to construct adequate, sturdy school
buildings in the refugee camps, that are accessible to both Rohingya refugee
children and Bangladeshi children from local host communities who lack access to
education due to a lack of public schools.
Instruct Camp-in-Charge officials not to close down schools operated by Rohingya
refugees in the camps that teach the Myanmar curriculum.
Lift restrictions and allow Rohingya students to enroll in Bangladeshi schools
outside the camps, cease expulsions of Rohingya students enrolled in these
schools, and allow students who were expelled to re-enroll.
Improve policing so as to ensure Rohingya refugees’ security in the refugee camps,
with a particular focus on preventing sexual and gender-based violence against
Rohingya girls and women at night.
Register the births of all children born in Cox’s Bazar.
Accede to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and draft and adopt
national refugee legislation.
Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and draft and adopt national
legislation on statelessness.
Ensure that non-governmental organizations with expertise in education in refugee
contexts are not subject to arbitrary decisions or prolonged delays with regard to
obtaining the necessary permits.
“ARE WE HUMAN?”
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