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What about the Rohingya women?

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Young women, aged 12-18, are the most vulnerable in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh. But Save the Children's "Girl Friendly Spaces" (pictured) are trying to change that. Image credit: Norma Hilton.

Around 700,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since August 25 last year.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, two-thirds of the refugees are women and children.

Although the horrors of their experiences have been widely reported, what is it really like for women inside the makeshift Rohingya communities in Bangladesh?

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Friday, May 18 2018

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Norma Hilton

Featured in storyLailufar Yasmin - Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka

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