Foreign Aid Cutbacks Worsen Education Crisis in Bangladesh Rohingya Refugee Camps

Foreign aid cutbacks worsen education crisis in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday on the deteriorating impact of humanitarian funds cutbacks on the education crisis in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. The group urged the country’s interim government to lift restrictions on refugees and intergovernmental agencies to include Rohingya educators in the decision-making process. In early June, the decline in foreign humanitarian assistance prompted the shutdowns of learning centers ope…

Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education

Click to expand Image A Rohingya girl walks past shelters in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 9, 2025. © 2025 Abdullah Bawshore US and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, with schools that served hundreds of thousands of children shut down.The cutbacks have closed learning centers run by aid groups. Co…

Foreign aid cuts affect Rohingya children’s education - The New Nation

Staff Reporter : Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh have been facing extreme education crisis as the United States (US) and other foreign donor have cut-offs the humanitarian aid. The cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, with schools that served hundreds of thousands of children shut down, reports Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesda…

Invited essay: An urgent lesson plan to fix international education aid

International aid for education needed reform prior to the recent donor cuts. Reform is even more urgent now, as progress in education continues to be…