were not allowed to go to university.”53 Even before 2012, Rohingya, denied nationality, were only allowed to enroll in B.A. and B.Sc. degrees at Sittwe University, and not engineering, law, and medicine, or other majors that are open only to Myanmar nationals.54 Furthermore, Sittwe University did not offer degrees in education; Yangon University did, but out of all the inhabitants of the Cox’s Bazar camps, only seven Rohingya refugees had received B.Ed. degrees before access to Yangon University was barred by travel restrictions.55 Rohingya were also required to obtain permission to travel to Sittwe, limiting the number who had attended university there even before the 2012 ban.5¢ Lack of Education for Bangladeshi Children in Cox’s Bazar Bangladeshi children in the Cox’s Bazar district suffer from a lack of teachers, classrooms, and high dropout rates. The Bangladesh government requires that at least 25 percent of humanitarian aid must be spent to address the needs of local host communities, and the education sector’s 2019 plans target 343,000 refugees and 120,000 host community students.57 UNICEF found that by late 2019, enrollment rates for children ages 4-11 at learning centers in the camps for Rohingya ranged from 79 to 89 percent, exceeding the 75 percent enrollment rates for Bangladeshi children of that age range in host communities in Cox’s Bazar, “which is why we have been extending our assistance to the host community.”58 There is no crossover between education aid to host communities and aid for education programs for Rohingya children, because the government bans Rohingya children from going to local schools. The net primary education enrollment rate for Bangladeshi children in the Cox’s Bazar district “is the lowest in the country,” and those who do enroll dropout at a rate that “is the 53 Human Rights Watch interview with, and written note received from, Mohamad Sufire, Cox’s Bazar, February 12, 2019. 54 Amnesty International, “Caged Without a Roof”: Apartheid in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, 2018, p. 66, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1674842017ENGLISH.PDF; Human Rights Watch interview with Mohamed Hanim, Cox’s Bazar, February 9, 2019. 55 PRIO, We Must Prevent a Lost Generation: Community-Led Education in Rohingya Camps, July 10, 2019, p. 18, https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=11387 (accessed July 26, 2019). 56 Human Rights Watch interviews with Royes and Mohamed Hanim, Cox’s Bazar, February 5 and 9, 2019. 57 See, e.g., “Rohingya Refugees: $950 million needed in next 10 months,” The Daily Star, March 10, 2018, https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/rohingya-refugees-950m-needed-next-10-months-1546075 (accessed July 23, 2019); 2019 Joint Response Plan for Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis, p. 35; Md. Sahada Hossain, “Regarding to Allocate 25% of total budget in FD-7 for Host Communities of Cox’s Bazar,” Director General, NGO Bureau, Office of the Prime Minister, July 15, 2019, on file with Human Rights Watch. 58 Letter to Human Rights Watch from UNICEF Bangladesh, December 2, 2019. “ARE WE HUMAN?” 26