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    We amplify the silenced voices of the Rohingya, whose existence has been unjustly negated.

    Persecuted, oppressed, and forced into the shadows, the colossal challenges persist in meeting the health, water, sanitation, and protection needs of Rohingya communities dwelling in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and beyond.

    Regrettably, little headway has been achieved in confronting the fundamental source of Rohingya affliction - their statelessness.

     

    We arrived in Bangladesh in 2017. We came here because Rohingya were being arrested and murdered in Myanmar. Our neighbourhoods were burning one after another. We observed this situation for eight days, hoping things would calm down. But things only got worse. Everyone was scared for their lives and started fleeing wherever they could.
    Hashimullah, a refugee in Cox's Bazar

     

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