Health and Educational Status of Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh

Integrating human rights approaches into public health practices and policies to address health needs amongst Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-ethnographic analysis

“…Mahmood SS et al (2016) [6]The Rohingya people of Myanmar: health, human rights, and identityOutlines the historical events preceding this complex emergency in health and human rights.QualitativeNANo6/10Medium quality6. Prodip Alam, M. (2017) [54]Health and Educational Status of Rohingya Refugee Children in BangladeshExplores the educational and health status of Rohingya refugee children with specific attention to gender issues.Qualitative, key informant interviews N  = 16 and other stakeholdersNo9/10High quality7. Riley, A. et al (2017) [53]Daily stressors, trauma exposure, and mental health among stateless Rohingya refugees in BangladeshExamined trauma history, daily environmental stressors, and mental health outcomes for Rohingya adults residing in Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps in Bangladesh.Quantitative N  = 148No7/7High quality8.…”

“…Our findings reveal that limitations of refugee life within the camps further intensify these existing gender distinctions and discriminations. In Rohingya culture the sons are viewed income-earners in the family, hence an asset and daughters are considered a burden [54]. Within refugee families while the first girl of a family may be kept longer for her domestic contribution, second and third daughters become superfluous and therefore to be married off as soon as possible, or in some cases even sold to traffickers [24, 49, 54, 55].…”

“…I don’t want to spend more money on my daughters. As a result, I have already let marry two of my daughters before completing their education’ [54]. …”

“…In order to not encourage more influx, the GoB did not build permanent structures until 2006 when they allowed repair and maintenance followed by construction of larger and more permanent shelters in accordance with international standards in two official camps. However, the camps continue to be overcrowded accompanied with limited water and poor sanitation and hygiene facilities [5, 9, 51, 54]. A refugee shared his condition, “(We) wish to highlight our living conditions.…”

“…During the rainy season majority of these shelters were flooded. These sanitation practices across the official and unofficial camps have persisted over the years and were an increasing cause of diarrhoea amongst the children and posed a public health threat to the refugees living there [5, 6, 39, 42, 43, 46, 50, 51, 54]. …”