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Aid cuts deepen Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh

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August 23, 2025

With international aid drying up, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remain trapped in limbo. Hundreds of thousands of children can't go to school, forcing many into child marriage or child labor.

In the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, over half of the 1.2 million Rohingya are children — most now cut off from education. With schools shuttered and aid dwindling, families face heartbreaking choices: child labor, early marriage or no schooling at all.

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