Rohingya Refugees Face Steep Climate Risks

Rohingya Refugees Face Steep Climate Risks

Refugee shelters being built on a hilly slope. (Courtesy image: Nazifa Rafa)   “Sometimes, we feel like death would be better than living in fear of dying every day,” said a young woman living in the Cox’s Bazar district of southeastern Bangladesh. She said she is worried that a landslide will wash away her hillside home, where she lives with her children. Similar fears were expressed by many other Rohingya also living in the district, according…