Secondary Education for the Rohingya

News Desk:

“Human Rights Watch” on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to offer Rohingya refugees formal secondary education, saying school officials in the southeast had expelled scores of Rohingya children because they lacked citizenship papers.

So far there is no much of arrangements for Rohingya children to attend school, with the country maintaining a rule prohibiting refugees from receiving formal education or enrolling in schools outside refugee camps, the New York-based group said in a statement. “The Bangladeshi government’s policy of tracking down and expelling Rohingya refugee students instead of ensuring their right to education is misguided, tragic, and unlawful,” said Bill Van Esveld, HRW’s senior researcher on children’s rights. “Education is a basic human right.” Rohingya boys and girls who live in camps located in Cox’s Bazar district receive an informal primary education through NGOs but, beyond that, they receive no secondary education.

Reference: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/02/bangladesh-rohingya-refugee-students-expelled