purposes, it has prohibited Rohingya from obtaining Bangladeshi identification documents. In January 2018, the government launched investigations and prosecutions against Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals responsible for fraudulently providing them with official documents, according to news reports.2® In January and February 2019, the government ordered public and private schools in Cox’s Bazar to expel Rohingya students who had enrolled in secondary schools by obtaining identification documents that falsely identified them as Bangladeshi nationals.2°9 In February 2018, the Registrar General of Birth and Death ordered an investigation into an allegation by the Cox’s Bazar district administration that birth certificates had been issued to “at least two” Rohingya children.27°As of September 2019, birth registration remained suspended in Cox’s Bazar, according to humanitarian NGO staff.272 The Bangladeshi Citizenship Act of 1951 is based on the principle of jus so/is, allowing all persons born in Bangladesh to acquire citizenship at birth, accordingto UNHCR, but in practice no Rohingya children born in Bangladesh can avail themselves of this right.272 International Funding The education sector includes UN humanitarian agencies and international and local NGOs. The sector has taken responsibility for providing education for Rohingya refugees as well as improving access to education for children in Bangladeshi host communities. International donors are funding education for Rohingya refugees, primarily through funding to UNICEF, which coordinates education for Rohingya who arrived since August 2017, and UNHCR, which has since 1996 supported education for “registered” Rohingya refugees who arrived in Bangladesh before mid-1992 and their children. Multilateral funding for education that has already been committed includes a $25 million World Bank grant, $12 million from Education Cannot Wait, a funding mechanism for education in 268 #300 Rohingya in Bangladesh Traveled Abroad on Bangladeshi Passports,” The lrawaddy, June 7, 2019, https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/300-rohingya-bangladesh-traveled-abroad-bangladeshi-passports.html (accessed June 10, 2019). 269 Human Rights Watch, Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Students Expelled, April 1, 2019, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/02/bangladesh-rohingya-refugee-students-expelled. 27°“DSCC accused of issuing birth certificates to Rohingyas, probe body formed,” Dhaka Tribune, March 28, 2018, https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2018/03/28/dscc-accused-issuing-birth-certificates-rohingyas-probebody-formed (accessed June 10, 2019). 271 Human Rights Watch telephone interviews, staff at international humanitarian NGOs, Cox’s Bazar, September 1, 2019. 272 UNHCR, States of Denial: A review of UNHCR’s response to the protracted situation of stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, December 2011, p. 8. “ARE WE HUMAN?” 68