Lives in Limbo: How the Absence of Livelihoods and Education Is Deepening Insecurity in Cox’s Bazar

Lives in Limbo: How the Absence of Livelihoods and Education Is Deepening Insecurity in Cox’s Bazar

by Ro Maung Shwe Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh More than 1.14 million Rohingya refugees are confined to the world’s largest and most overcrowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. They fled successive waves of violence, persecution, and genocide in Myanmar in 1942, 1978, 1991–92, 2012, 2016–17, and again in 2024. Despite decades of displacement and repeated forced migrations, not a single large scale, safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation has taken p…