official with a medical NGO said, causing girls to be too afraid to use the latrines after dark in the unlit camps.23¢ Security is insufficient for women and girls in the camps, where only 992 Bangladeshi policemen are assigned, a Bangladesh police superintendent told Reuters in April 2019, and do not patrol at night. 237 Humanitarian NGOs and UN agencies are operating shelters or safe spaces for women and girls in the camps and outside. UN Women was operating two women-only-facilities and had contracts for the construction of three more facilities as of February 2019, each of which provided a medical clinic.238 A local NGO, Pulse Bangladesh, operates 10 safe spaces, each with 5 rooms, for Rohingya women and girls in the camps, and a shelter outside the camp for women and girls from the camps as well as from the local Bangladeshi community. There are roughly 25 spaces available in the shelter, which “are in very high demand,” and three children had been born there, the director said.239 Men attacking or threatening women to keep them from working with NGOs could limit the number of Rohingya women willing to work as instructors or in other NGO-run child protection or gender-based violence programs that help girls. Reuters and Fortify Rights, an NGO, reported in early 2019 that members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a small armed group, had threatened and assaulted women for working with aid groups in the camps, including by breaking into their shelters and beating them with sticks.24° An education specialist at BRAC told Reuters that 150 female teachers had stopped coming to work in late January after receiving or hearing about the “violent threats”. On Twitter, ARSA simply denied the reports. A young woman who was threatened said that “many [people] feel like us,” i.e. that women should be able to help their community through work with NGOs, but that ARSA “put superglue over our mouths.”24 236 Human Rights Watch interview, Medecins Sans Frontieres advocacy officer, Cox’s Bazar, February 16, 2019. 237 Simon Lewis, Poppy McPherson, Ruma Paul, “In Rohingya Camps, a political awakening faces a backlash,” Reuters, April 24, 2019, https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1S000Z?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews (accessed June 2, 2019). 238 Human Rights Watch interview with UN Women representative, Cox’s Bazar, February 16, 2019. 239 Human Rights Watch interview with Saiful Islam, Pulse Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar, February 8, 2019. 249 Fortify Rights, “ARSA: End Abduction, Torture, Threats Against Rohingya Refugees and Women Aid Workers,” March 14, 2019, https://www.fortifyrights.org/publication-20190314.html (accessed June 10, 2019). 241 Lewis, McPherson, Paul, “In Rohingya Camps, a political awakening faces a backlash,” Reuters, April 24, 2019. “ARE WE HUMAN?” 62