
Rohingya Women Fight to Be Heard
Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh holds the world's largest refugee camp, and this DW report focuses on the women inside it. Stateless and barred from formal work, Rohingya women describe abductions, restricted movement, and the danger of something as basic as walking to a toilet after dark. Reporters Birgitta Schülke, Naomi Conrad, and Arafatul Islam interview women navigating a camp where militant groups' influence is growing and where men have far more freedom of movement than women do. Some of the women featured are pursuing education anyway, attending informal classes set up in the camp despite resistance from a male-dominated community that sees schooling for girls as a threat to tradition. The film sets their personal accounts against the larger picture of a stateless population with almost no legal protection, caught between a host country that denies them citizenship and a home country, Myanmar, that drove them out. It is a short, direct look at what daily survival costs women specifically in a crisis usually described in aggregate numbers.